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1953 Certificate PG
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In order to rebuild his wax museum after a fire, Professor Henry Jarrod has resorted to using human bodies covered with wax Read more

Starring Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones
Director Andre De Toth
Genres Horror

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House Of Wax

In order to rebuild his wax museum after a fire, Professor Henry Jarrod has resorted to using human bodies covered with wax

Starring Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts
Director Andre De Toth
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 06 Jun 2005
Production year: 1953
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 4

    Spirited remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (qv); as a piece of screen narrative it leaves much to be desired, but the sudden shocks are well managed, perhaps because this is the first Grade-A 3-D film, packed with gimmicks irrelevant to the story

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Two movies on this disc

    In spite of another review claiming this to be the original movie, it clearly isn't.

    For on this disc (in the special features section )is included a much older version, 'Mystery of the Wax Museum' from 1933.

    It is this earlier film that is the more impressive I think.

    It stars Fay Wray in a smallish part, the acting is slightly better and I feel that the makeup of the museum owning monster is better and more believable (bearing in mind the age of both these movies) than that of the 1953 film.

    Amazingly for it's age, it is also in colour and the sound is not bad either considering.

    The 1953 Vincent Price version is not a bad film by any means, but I found I enjoyed earlier 1933 version much more.

    Glad I rented it.

      • fwibbler from Rainham
      • Posted 26 Oct 2005 19:23

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    golden oldie

    great classic horror film can't wait for the new one

      • A customer from heysham, lancashire
      • Posted 17 Jun 2005 10:01

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