House of Wax
House of Wax
- R
- 1h 53m
- 2005
26%
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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.
© 2005 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
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
BBC.com
Jamie Russell
Makes up for its idiot plot with a gallon of gore.
June 21, 2017
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Filled with the usual contemporary horror staples, most notably lots of rusty torture implements a...
March 13, 2019
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It had a great sense of humor about itself.
March 13, 2019
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom.
March 13, 2019
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
This movie gives it to you, as no movie has in some years.
June 21, 2017
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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.
A Lot or A Little?
The parents’ guide to what’s in this movie.
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Additional Info
- Genre:Drama, Horror
- Release Date:May 6, 2005
- Languages:English
- Captions:English
- Audio Format:5.1
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