Waxwork on DVD (1986)

Average rating: 57%

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2 Critics reviews
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Starring:	Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, Dana Ashbrook, Miles O'Keeffe, Patrick Macnee, David Warner
Director:	Anthony Hickox
Studio:	COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time:	92 mins
Certificate:
User collections:	Screams Of Laughter
Genres:	Horror
Languages:	English
Released:	17/09/2001

Brief synopsis of Waxwork

Zach Galligan (Gremlins) teams up with special effects wizard Bob Keen (Alien, Highlander) to star in this spine-tingling horror. Mark and his college class decide to have a little fun and attend a ‘private’ midnight showing at the new waxwork museum. Admission is free… but getting out may cost them their lives! Join them in this roller-coaster ride into terror in Waxwork.

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Critics Reviews

Radio Times

A dull and dumber sequel reuniting the star and director of an original which wasn't all that great. This picks up directly where the first one left off with Zach Galligan surviving the apocalyptic end of the deadly waxwork museum only to be propelled into various time periods — all recognizable horror settings — to defeat evil. This ploy enables Anthony Hickox to once again prove his uninspired talent for spoofing various genre movies, this time ranging from Nosferatu to The Haunting. An eclectic cast includes cameos from Drew Barrymore and Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell. Even EastEnders regular Martin Kemp pops up as Baron Frankenstein. Certainly off the wall and enjoyable for horror buffs if they catch it in the right mood.

Time Out

The portmanteau horror movie makes a hesitant comeback with this jokey teen splatter pic. Invited to a midnight show by... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Loads of fun

Noel Clay from Colchester, England , 24/11/2004

The teen comedy horror genre isn't exactly popular with the critics. But people watch them because, well, they can be fun. And that's just what this is. Nice, neat fun.

It's especially impressive considering it's from a first-time writer/director, Anthony Hickox, who later went on to make decent werewolf TV movie 'Full Eclipse' in 1993. Here he gives his own homage to a wide variety of horror movies. You've got your werewolf movie (the very first waxwork, incidentally), your vampire movie, mummies, zombies and a trashy period piece about the Marquis de Sade ... all of these are in waxwork museum along with brief appearances from aliens, Jack the Ripper and more.

At first I expected it just to be a 'Dr Terror's House of Horror' style piece with six different stories involved, but it turns out the film has more than enough original ideas to keep itself going. It all ends with a spectacular final battle. Which is nice. The actors playing the teenagers all give fairly decent, entertaining performances and you have noteable cameos from the likes of Miles O'Keeffe, John Rhys-Davies (as the werewolf), David Warner and Patrick Macnee (who was in 'The Howling'). The script is pretty well structured and very little about the storyline is disappointing.

All in all, this is among the most entertaining movies I've seen in a while, and I'd recommend it if you're after an ninety minutes of light-hearted, slightly twisted enjoyment.

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