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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 town.
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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. Read Critics Reviews
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Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews,...
House of Wax: Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton. A group of teens are unwittingly stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- 2005-05-06
- 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...
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 27% based on 161 reviews and the average rating is 4.29/10. The site's consensus reads, "Bearing little resemblance to the 1953 original, House of Wax is a formulaic but better-than-average teen slasher flick." [13]
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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.) Horror. Thriller. Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra.
