Once poor Wade gets captured by Vincent and is basically tortured in a scene that wouldn’t have been out of place in one of the French extreme films of the period, the slash and stalk mode of the movie begins, and all of the magnificent production design and glorious set pieces are laid out on display. It’s in this town where they meet a mechanic shop owner named Bo (Brian Van Holt) who pulls double duty as the masked maniac Vincent. An interesting side note, Padalecki starred in the popular TV series “Supernatural” months after this theatrical release and, about four years later, there was a meta episode that involved a shape-shing Leshy from Slavic folklore stalking a small town wax museum that includes an on screen Paris Hilton decapitation that outdoes the rusty pipe forehead impalement we get in House Of Wax. Everything starts kicking into gear when the group parts ways after an altercation with one of the locals and Carly follows her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) into the ghost town of Ambrose to retrieve a new fan belt for his car. Most of the time is occupied with the backdrop of abrasive nu metal music while siblings Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and Nick (Chad Michael Murray) argue around the campsite or the others get hammered on booze and toss around the old pig skin. John Ottman’s ( Eight Legged Freaks) compelling score does manage to get under the skin during the quieter moments which are far and few between. (Image not representative of restoration.) There’s a deleted scene included on this disc that reveals an effective opening kill that would have established a more effectively suspenseful mood than the origin flashback of the twin brothers who get fully introduced in the better part of the movie.Ĭenter: Elisha Cuthbert as Carly Jones in HOUSE OF WAX. Windon ( Star Trek Beyond) can do when all he has to work with is a secluded campsite and a group of insipid characters, lacking much of anything resembling intelligence or personality, headed to a football game in Louisiana. There is an attempt to build atmosphere, but there’s not much cinematographer Stephen F. No, the biggest challenge was trying to make an hour-long setup in a movie feel suspenseful and engaging when nothing remotely interesting or substantial happens. The grandest obstacle that this hand-picked rookie filmmaker had working against him was not Paris Hilton, in fact she did an admirable job of delivering what was required of her character in the script. ![]() There’s two more, we’ve still got a lot of work to do.” – Boĭirector Jaume Collet-Serra makes the most of his material in the 2005 remake of House of Wax, which, truth be told, feels more like a remake of Tourist Trap, but that’s neither here nor there. She always said your talent would make up for what God took away from you. What I tell ya, huh? Ain’t your work more real now? Ma would be proud, yeah, she’d be real proud. Those two are good, they’ll fit perfectly. House of Wax (2005) is now available in a collector’s edition from Scream Factory. It is also notable for being written by Chad and Carey Hayes who would find their footing eventually with The Conjuring and its worthy sequel. ![]() This was the directorial debut of Jaume Collet-Serra who would go on to make the far superior horror film Orphan, Disney’s The Jungle Cruise with Duane Johnson and Emily Blunt, as well as the upcoming DC comics adaptation Black Adam. The 2005 House of Wax is a remake in name only to the first major-studio black-and-white 3-D feature from 1953 starring Vincent Price, which was in turn a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933. Today we’ll be discussing the fifth film from Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis’s Dark Castle Entertainment. ![]() Welcome to Fistful of Features, a celebration of film preservation through physical media and the discussion of cinematic treasures to maintain their relevance in the cultural lexicon. Join Fistful of Features as it returns to the “House of Wax” via Shout! Factory’s Collector’s Edition Blu-ray. Home › Recommendation › Films To Watch › Join Fistful of Features as it returns to the “House of Wax” via Shout! Factory’s Collector’s Edition Blu-ray.
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