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

27%

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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:

Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, Susan Downey, Herbert W. Gains, Steve Richards, Bruce Berman

Writer:

Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes

Cast:

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

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

27%

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

Reviews

Horror Queers Podcast

Joe Lipsett

A stylish and mean slasher remake (yes, of Tourist Trap!) that leans too much into its twin fixation and breaks up the group needlessly. The production design is the real star here: the melty finale is a true spectacle

Holding the movie up to a flame shows it can't hold a candle to its predecessor.

Although it's filled with stupid characters who make basic horror movie mistakes (they take the detour, accept a ride from a stranger, investigate the creepy town, etc.), it also has a way of getting under the skin.

Collet-Serra delivers a pleasingly ruthless nightmare that does especially well with creepy visuals and bodily harm, resulting in one of the best Dark Castle Entertainment offerings.

While House of Wax certainly delivers what it promises the film only half works for me because I'm more invested in the aesthetics than the actors. Still, for a big budget studio effort it's certainly watchable...

July 26, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Drama, Horror
Release Date:May 6, 2005
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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House of Wax

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