DVD : House of Wax
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790765389
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790765381
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 165 minutes
Sales Rank: 8601
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1953
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Museum fire turns handsome man into human monster who steals bodies from morgue to create lifelike images in wax.
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House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price as a sculptor of wax figures; his unwilling victims--er, "models"--lend their bodies to his lifelike depictions of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc. The film was one of the top 10 moneymakers of its year, thanks in part to the 3-D gimmick, which explains why so many things are aimed at the camera (why else would the paddleball man be there?). Footnote to history: director Andre De Toth was blind in one eye, and thus could not see in three dimensions.
Not at all a musty relic of the early-sound era, the original Mystery of the Wax Museum (shot in a soft, trial version of Technicolor) is saucy, pre-Code fun. As corpses disappear from the morgue, Lionel Atwill's wax museum adds to its displays. Coincidence, or the work of the hideously deformed fiend stalking the Manhattan night? Most of the snappy dialogue comes courtesy of reporter Glenda Farrell, a vintage wisecracking dame. --Robert Horton
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The 3D aspect was there and if it weren't for the mention of it in the intro I would not of known why things were sometimes thrown towards the camera. I am sure back in the day it would of blown people away and it sounds so great in a time of simple movies trying to do new things.
I have watched a lot of Vincent Price movies lately and I have to say first this is far by my favorite I have seen right now. I kept thinking to myself about the time this movie was made and how much work was done with the mannequins and even the fight scene at the very beginning of the movie in a burning building. Price's acting shined for me in this movie and I find it strange how I have seen some of his movies with nothing going for it yet Vincent Price is always the shining piece in it. For me the most annoying part was the blonde hair woman at the beginning (whose name escapes me right now) kept doing this laugh that made my spine tingle not because it was scary but more because it was rather annoying. That is a minor gripe for me which is really nothing next to such a great movie. For the price I am glad I bought this one even though I found myself wanting to see more I am still happy with it.
The special features are not really there but the disc is double sided so you get the older version on the other side. Though I did not enjoy the older version since I watched the Price version first I just could not get into it. The audio and visual content was also ... Read More
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Once you've seen the gloriously depraved and wicked l932 original--Mystery of the Wax Museum--this remake is terribly anemic and vanilla. In Mystery of the Wax Museum, you had a horror masterpiece made during those notorious pre-code days. Themes of necrophilia, drug addiction, prostitution are all crucial elements of the story in this fascinating tale of a sculptor who is hideously disfigured by a fire. Yet, he survives to rebuilt his wax museum by encasing corpses in wax and transforming them into historical figures. Lionel Atwill made a terrifying monster and he had the gorgeous Fay Wray as his terrified heroine. Better yet, it was filmed in a beautiful early Technicolor process, with the pastel shades of blue, red, gold and green giving it an eerie dream-like effect.
Switch to the House of Wax and you see a movie that's been squeezed dry of everything colorful. The heroine does all the stupid horror heroine things and everyone seems to move in slow motion. When the heroine wakes up to find the monster hovering over her, she shrieks, yet remains in bed after he flees. Her next door neighbor enters the room slowly and pipes: "Are you having another bad dream, dear?" and casually sits down beside the heroine who says nothing about her ghastly intruder. She doesn't even try to jump up and lock the French doors where the monster entered. None of the characters are colorful or memorable as found in the l932 original. If you've never seen the original, then by all ... Read More
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Vincent Price's "House of Wax" (1953) is a striking 3-Dementional movie adaptation of Lionel Atwell's classic "Mystery at the Wax Museum" (1933)- the '33 flick is on the reverse side of the 2003 DVD. As an emergent technological wonder, the 1953 version used interlocking 35mm camera filming on mirrors from 45-degree angles to make the movie. At the theater, the dual projection system showed its startling effects to 3-D glasses wearing viewers.
This macabre tale of beauty, death, and evil psychosis features spears thrown towards you, paddle balls slapped at you, doors open upon you, blood flung on to you, and (just before the closing credits) a young Charles Bronson's wax head thrust at you... all in frightening 3-D. Phyllis Kirk, the beautiful heroine, is chased through the rainy midnight streets of 1902 New York City by the murderer madman (Price) his sliding gape always close behind her- clip-clop. Her first visit through the dark and fearsome museum, featuring cadavers waxed into history's evil people, is equally gripping. As the wax begins to pour towards her you will feel her fear.
You'll want to grab your 3-D eyewear for this horror classic. If you don't have 3-D glasses red and blue, or green, cellophane will suffice (one color for each eye).
There is no foul language and only implied nudity is this fun flick. This 2003 DVD version is very clear and well presented.
The House of Wax's demented mad man, still ... Read More
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i do not like your new rating system at all, the last one was much better, and i will not fill out the new ones because they take too long, very disappointed you changed the rating system
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starring: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni
directed by: André De Toth, Michael Curtiz
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790765389
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790765381
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 165 minutes
Sales Rank: 8601
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1953
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