One thing I love about movies is definitely originality. I love movies with original scripts that aren't adapted from books, comics, television shows, and old movies. As I've stated before I'm a firm believer in originality and praise any film that's not a sequel or remake. However, occasionally there are good remakes such as The Mummy, but then something awkward just comes out of a success like that. Sequels to remakes begin emerging and I'm not completely sure how that even works, but that's a topic for another day.
House of Wax is a remake of the 1953 version that starred Vincent Price. The modern 2005 version is more of slasher movie with a completely different plot and charact
ers and really only borrows the title. I'm just going to get it out of the way and answer a few questions for those who remember seeing the commercials for this: yes Paris Hilton plays one of the main characters, yes she dies in a random impalement after a decent chase scene, and yes this is probably the second most popular movie she had "starred" in... A low blow but hey, a little Imdb research can show you she did act in some other terrible movies that managed to find their way onto Imdb's bottom 100 films. Paris, please don't act anymore, you ruin the careers of many directors and actors.
ers and really only borrows the title. I'm just going to get it out of the way and answer a few questions for those who remember seeing the commercials for this: yes Paris Hilton plays one of the main characters, yes she dies in a random impalement after a decent chase scene, and yes this is probably the second most popular movie she had "starred" in... A low blow but hey, a little Imdb research can show you she did act in some other terrible movies that managed to find their way onto Imdb's bottom 100 films. Paris, please don't act anymore, you ruin the careers of many directors and actors.The plot takes you with a bunch of teens out camping in the woods and after some strange acc
idents need to separate in order to all get home. Surprisingly a few find there way to a town known for their House of Wax. Surprisingly, they start getting picked off one by one being transformed into wax sculptures with multiple scenes of unnecessary gore. Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray play brother and sister in this movie, but play it as a repressed love relationship. I find the stereotypical roles each character plays annoying as in
these people would not be friends in real life, and Paris Hilton would have died a lot sooner. I went into this believing this movie would be awful and it ended up being watchable. The special effects and random shock scenes were great, but that's just the thing, took make a movie truly terrifying you must have more than shock value. The leading "monster" named Vincent has a deformed wax face and looks like the ungodly offspring of Freddy Kreuger and Michael Meyers. Although Vincent looks, acts, and lives the life of your typical slasher killer, the director fails to slowly develop him into a terrifying figure and I found myself laughing more at his awkward motions.
idents need to separate in order to all get home. Surprisingly a few find there way to a town known for their House of Wax. Surprisingly, they start getting picked off one by one being transformed into wax sculptures with multiple scenes of unnecessary gore. Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray play brother and sister in this movie, but play it as a repressed love relationship. I find the stereotypical roles each character plays annoying as in
these people would not be friends in real life, and Paris Hilton would have died a lot sooner. I went into this believing this movie would be awful and it ended up being watchable. The special effects and random shock scenes were great, but that's just the thing, took make a movie truly terrifying you must have more than shock value. The leading "monster" named Vincent has a deformed wax face and looks like the ungodly offspring of Freddy Kreuger and Michael Meyers. Although Vincent looks, acts, and lives the life of your typical slasher killer, the director fails to slowly develop him into a terrifying figure and I found myself laughing more at his awkward motions. The film wasn't all bad though, it had a one unique factor with more than one main villain, but I won't give away 
more plot in case you do wish to view this film. I also felt like I didn't develop those horror movie questions such as: "Why wouldn't she lock the door?", "Why didn't you pick up the gun?", and my favorite "Why would you split up when you know something is out there?" The plot also was very simple and you knew exactly who was chasing Paris and crew, you knew exactly what was going to happen to them once they were caught, and you knew ex
actly when this movie was over. The climax of the movie was intense enough for me to enjoy and turned into an action movie with great special effects. Final complaint I'll discuss here is the ending though. The last line was so incredibly moronic. It was suppose to be a big twist or shock line to make you either laugh or ponder in amazement, but doesn't phase you at all. Do yourself a favor and only watch this if you're incredibly curious about shooting a crossbow at someon and want to see one of the worst stripteases ever.
more plot in case you do wish to view this film. I also felt like I didn't develop those horror movie questions such as: "Why wouldn't she lock the door?", "Why didn't you pick up the gun?", and my favorite "Why would you split up when you know something is out there?" The plot also was very simple and you knew exactly who was chasing Paris and crew, you knew exactly what was going to happen to them once they were caught, and you knew ex
actly when this movie was over. The climax of the movie was intense enough for me to enjoy and turned into an action movie with great special effects. Final complaint I'll discuss here is the ending though. The last line was so incredibly moronic. It was suppose to be a big twist or shock line to make you either laugh or ponder in amazement, but doesn't phase you at all. Do yourself a favor and only watch this if you're incredibly curious about shooting a crossbow at someon and want to see one of the worst stripteases ever.
2 comments:
Just to let you know, it's actually a remake of a remake. There was one before the Vincent Price version.
I completely forgot about that, I read it online and didn't think to mention it at all. thanks though.
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