![]() Overall, it works and provides a nice viewing experience.ĭepth: This isn’t bad, but its only slightly above average with the depth of field here. The textured detail of the house of wax itself as well as the figurines is pretty top of the line and importantly delivers. The film’s new image features some solid texture and crispness, but feels like it could maybe improve in the depth department a bit. The result is solid, but is a bit more casual in its appearance. On a core level, this film really delivers in the little horrors and gore to such a degree that characters and story playing out a bit more route doesn’t matter and feels like window dressing for a glorious special effects team’s new showcase.Ĭlarity/Detail: House of Wax arrives on Blu-ray for a second time boasting a 2K restoration from an interpositive. ![]() What it does deliver, is one of the more top flight slashers in an era where remakes were king and slashers were slowly fading for a bit. Is it better than the Vincent Price one? No, but its also trying its hardest not to be that film and that’s very respectable. ![]() Since it arrived in 2005, I’ve been a fan of this take on House of Wax. Its goopy, messy, gross, dangerous and really caps off a nice slasher in the highest of fashions. House of Wax ends in a big grand fashion with the house melting and coming apart and our heroes trying to fight a killer and escape this death trap all at once. And for what this film is, a little studio slasher, the finale of it is quite impressive and they actually pull it of. There are a lot of cool sets here and the film doesn’t ever shy away from playing around in this doom house and showcases many different ways in which it can be used in a scene or sequence. One of the greatest achievements in the film is the house of wax being made of wax. Sure, there’s plenty of it, but its done in very clean and colorful, yet effective manners. The impressive thing is that none of it feels extensive, dark or just drenched in the gore. Hilton’s death is also an all-timer horror kill, just well thought and expertly executed. There are plenty of squeamish bits of violence that are incredibly effective. They’ve done a remarkable job here with the film from both the wax figures and the gore on display in the film. Perhaps the biggest star of House of Wax isn’t Paris Hilton, but the special effects department. And as a slasher/horror film, its embracing of what it is and unapologetic nature really helps it succeed and stand out among its contemporaries and fellow fad remakes of its time. This one plays like a hybrid of taking some of the best of the 1980s slasher films, but injected with some of the more raw 70s horrors in the vein of your Texas Chainsaw Massacres and The Hills Have Eyes. This one decides to take its waxy story and play more into the slasher mold of things. Once inside the spooky and seemingly abandoned building, they find the works on display are not quite what they seem - and the group soon discovers it’s being hunted by the insane twin brothers who run the museum.Ģ005’s House of Wax makes the smart decision of playing the “loose remake” card to the Vincent Price classic (Itself a remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum). ![]() They are forced to seek help in the only place that’s open: the local wax museum. You can pre-order a copy by using the paid Amazon Associates link following the review.Ī 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. It excites me that Scream Factory has done a collector’s edition of it AND got Paris Hilton back for an interview. That in the far rearview, perhaps some will check it out without that bit loudly shouting at them and others might take a look to re-evaluate. Much of its marketing and buzz was a backlash on “how dare a movie cast Paris Hilton” that was embraced in a marketing tactic of “come watch us kill Paris Hilton”. For instance, for years and years I felt alone in that I thought the mocked upon release film House of Wax from 2005 was in actuality, pretty good. For all the bad and the insufferable, it has some nice aspects to it that keep people coming back.
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