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Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022. Filmed in Warnercolor and having the advantage of an actor of Vincent Price's calibre to head the cast, House of Wax will make suspenseful ...
- House of Wax (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes
NEW. A gang of college friends, including Wade (Jared...
- House of Wax - Rotten Tomatoes
The figures in the wax museum become almost too realistic as...
- House of Wax (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes
The figures in the wax museum become almost too realistic as seen in 3-D. Dec 15, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews Audience Reviews View All (934) audience reviews
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- Andre de Toth
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NEW. A gang of college friends, including Wade (Jared Padalecki) and his girlfriend, Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), are en route to a school football game when they wind up with a flat tire in a ghost ...
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- Jaume Collet-Serra
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- Elisha Cuthbert
May 6, 2005 · House of Wax Reviews - Metacritic. 2005. R. Warner Bros. Pictures. 1 h 53 m. Summary What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House of Wax, an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic. (Warner Bros.)
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- Jaume Collet-Serra
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- Director Jaume Collett-Sera Knows What He’S Doing
- The Production Design Is Innovative and Genuinely Creepy
- It Delivers Memorable Slasher and Torture-Porn Moments
- Paris Hilton Doesn’T Embarrass Herself – in Fact, She’S Good
- It’S An Unintentional Love Letter to The 2000s in The Most Comforting Way
(Photo by © Warner Brothers) Since House of Wax, director Collett-Sera has made a reputation for doing a whole lot with not much. His Liam Neeson films – Unknown, The Commuter, Non-Stop, Run All Night – always feel a cut above the average action programmer, and he managed to direct Orphan – yes, the one in which the kid turns out to be a 33-year-ol...
(Photo by © Warner Brothers) A movie titled House of Wax lives or dies by its titular location: Audiences walk in expecting a creepy-as-hell museum made of wax – it’s why they ponied up to the box office in the first place – so you sure as hell better give it to them. Collett-Sera and the production designers deliver, and then some, with not just a...
(Photo by © Warner Brothers) House of Wax arrived at a strange time for studio horror, and by most people’s assessments, not a time particularly marked by quality output. The slasher revival kicked off by Scream in the mid-to-late 1990s had not really delivered a “revival” at all, with imitators from I Know What You Did Last Summer to Urban Legend ...
(Photo by © Warner Brothers) Of course, the most memorable moment in House of Wax belongs to then ubiquitous socialite Paris Hilton, who – after a satisfying chase scene – is impaled by a metal pole thrown at her like a javelin. Warner Brothers’ marketing had gone out with the slogan “See Paris Die!”and Collett-Sera made sure to fulfill the promise...
(Photo by © Warner Brothers) And not just because of the Paris factor. Like the town of Ambrose itself, House of Wax is a time capsule, and watching it today is strangely comforting – especially if you’re longing for the simpler days of playing Snake 2 on your NOKIA. The movie came out just before technology evolved to a level where a plot like thi...
House of Wax is a 2005 slasher film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. The film stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt in a dual role, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, and Robert Ri'chard. It is a remake of the 1953 film of the same name ...
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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 44 reviews and an average score of 7.5 out of 10. The site's "critics consensus" reads: " House of Wax is a 3-D horror delight that combines the atmospheric eerieness of the wax museum with the always chilling presence of Vincent Price."
