House of Wax

Name: House of Wax
Released: 2005-5-6
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki

House of Wax

R
1h 53m
2005

26%

age 18+

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A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. The friends discover that the psychotic siblings have expanded the area's main attraction--the House of Wax--and created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before its members also become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax. Remake of the Warner Bros. horror classic, which was the first release of a 3-D film by a major studio.

Director:

Jaume Collet-Serra

Producer:

Writer:

Cast:

Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri'chard, Dragitsa Debert

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

26%

Critics Consensus: Bearing little resemblance to the 1953 original, House of Wax is a formulaic but better-than-average teen slasher flick.

Reviews

Black Horror Movies

Mark H. Harris

House of Wax is admirable as one of the few movies - and even fewer horror movies - to feature an...

Comes across like an extended (and violent) episode of Scooby-Doo, and viewing the film as such ma...

A 2005 review of this picture would've registered more shock from me...

A stupid, brainless, and pointless horror installment with all the usual characters, and pretty ba...

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Sacramento News & Review

Bob Grimm

August 16, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 18+

Common Sense Says

Bloody slasher film is nothing like the original.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie contains repeated gross-out horror images, including skin ripping off faces; bodies subjected to stabbing, chopping, and piercing; girls screaming and weeping; shotguns blasting; deer carcasses rotting; bugs crawling; even a finger being cut off with wire cutters. The killers keep fetuses in jars, blame their mother, and target boys and girls equally, though Paris Hilton is the only victim to strip to her red bra and panties and give her boyfriend (off-screen, but plainly indicated) oral sex. The killer superglues one girl's mouth shut, and she cuts it open so it bleeds and she can summon help; characters drink, smoke, and use harsh language.