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• House Of Wax [2005]

  Barnaby Walter 31 July 2010

  

  This boring 2005 horror thriller is a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price film of the same name. Serving as an introduction to gory horror for teenagers who don't know they're being fed derivative trash, House of Wax is deliberately tasteless and unintentionally dull. The cast is populated by beautiful 20-somethings whose acting skills make the Tweenies look like a Stanislavski masterclass. The exception is Chad Michael Murray, the One Tree Hill-star who's too good for this nonsense.
  
  I was also deeply unnerved at the fact that this gruesomely violent film received a 15 certificate. Containing scenes which show, in horrible detail, injury, pain, terrorisation and suffering, it would feel out of place at any category other than 18.
  
  The flimsy plot concerns a creepy museum made entirely of wax; the nasty twist being that all the wax models are, or were, human beings incarcerated in a wax shell. When the college-kids discover the "House of Wax", they are captured and tortured, with the sadistic residents attempting to add them to their sick collection of living wax-works.
  
  Apart from a visually effective finale, the whole affair is tedious in the extreme. It's a shame, because with all the CGI and modern camera trickery available, this could have been a riveting scare fest. But the result is all blood and gore but nothing very satisfying. If you haven't already seen it, best give it a miss.
  

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  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.   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 from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.    A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly, Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade and her hot-headed brother Nick.   They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction - Trudy's House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real.    As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets, they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose - or become permanent additions to the House Of Wax.     Actors Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton & Jared Padalecki Director Jaume Collet-Serra Certificate 15 years and over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Additional Languages German ; Spanish - Castiliian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; German for the hearing impaired ; English ; German ; Spanish - Castiliian ; Finnish ; Danish ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Swedish Duration 1 hour and 43 minutes (approx)  

Horror from director Robert Zemeckis. What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton) and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) and her hot-headed brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray). They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction - Trudy's House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets, they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose - or become permanent additions to the House Of Wax.