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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790765389
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790765381
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 165 minutes
Sales Rank: 6054
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1953
Editorial Review:
Description:
Museum fire turns handsome man into human monster who steals bodies from morgue to create lifelike images in wax.
Amazon.com:
House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price as a sculptor of wax figures; his unwilling victims--er, 'models'--lend their bodies to his lifelike depictions of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc. The film was one of the top 10 moneymakers of its year, thanks in part to the 3-D gimmick, which explains why so many things are aimed at the camera (why else would the paddleball man be there?). Footnote to history: director Andre De Toth was blind in one eye, and thus could not see in three dimensions.
Not at all a musty relic of the early-sound era, the original Mystery of the Wax Museum (shot in a soft, trial version of Technicolor) is saucy, pre-Code fun. As corpses disappear from the morgue, Lionel Atwill's wax museum adds to its displays. Coincidence, or the work of the hideously deformed fiend stalking the Manhattan night? Most of the snappy dialogue comes courtesy of reporter Glenda Farrell, a vintage wisecracking dame. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Arguably the best 3-D movie--ever! (Even without 3D)
The fact that this is one of the few 3-D movies that plays just as well WITHOUT 3-D, says something. A great, grisly story (based upon the 1933 "Mystery of the Wax Museum" which is found, coincidentally, on the other side of this DVD), and a magnificently oily performance by Vincent Price make this a great ride. Andre de Toth, the director, was blind in one eye, so was probably not interested in doing a lot of 3D gimmick shots. In fact, the only scene that really gives away the film's 3D heritage ... Read More
Rating: - House of Wax a Gothic Horror Masterpiece
Inventive original Gothic Horror Masterpiece featuring the legondary Vincent Price in one of best early performances. I believe that this was his first Horror Movie.No mystery he became an icon. This movie is timeless, captivating, chilling, and highly stylish one of the finest Horror Films that I've ever seen. Well written scipt superbly acted coupled with an interesting sountrack that really enchances this screen gem.Enjoy this white knuckle adventure with pizza and popcorn sit back and enjoy.
Rating: - The Roof, The Roof, The Roof is on Fire.. (dvd features below)
We don't need no water let the mother fer burn said Vincent Price's partner in the unprofitable wax museum that he sets ablaze for the insurance money. The price of the insurance money is no match for Price's revenge which is priceless.
Prof. Henry Jarrod (Price), who was thought to be killed in the blaze was only badly burned and now wants to rebuild his wax museum with a little help from his friend (a jacked up, real life, Charlie Bronson named Igor), where art not only imitates life ... Read More
Rating: - Vincent Price is the man!!
If you love Vincent Price, you'll love this movie. Also check out The Last Man on Earth, Theatre of Blood, the hard-to-find His Kind of Woman and Diary of a Madman. There won't be another Vincent Price and that's just the way we like it!
Rating: - Surprise!!
I was very much surprised when I ordered this House of Wax video. It not only contained the movie I wanted with Vincent Price, but it also had the original movie with Fay Ray. Very much pleased with this video.
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