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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: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-18
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:
Date: 2008-06-13
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 but also death.
This is a staple to any horror fans dvd collection and one of Price's best films and there are many. I've heard negative things about the transfer of this dvd but thought it to be very good.
Special dvd features:
House of wax premier newsreel - interactive menus - theatrical trailer- scene access- mystery of the wax museum Rating:
Date: 2008-06-02
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:
Date: 2008-04-25
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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Date: 2008-03-30
It can be seen in 3D on your TV or Computer
If you have polarized glasses, any film shot in the 1950s using the polarized method, like House of Wax, It Came From Outer Space, and Dial M for Murder, will play on your TV in 3D. I got a free set of polarized glasses for the broadcast of the episode of 3rd Rock from The Sun "A Nightmare on Dick Street." This was broadcast with the dream sequences in 3D (glasses were available if you bought a case of Barq's Root Beer -- I got several) and I taped it and found that my VHS recording retained the 3D information. When I started the DVD of House of Wax and saw the claim that it was in "Natural 3D," I knew they had to be referring to the polarized system, because anaglyphic films from that era cannot be viewed without the glasses (unless they are running in a non-3D format), hence they are not "natural." Cardboard framed polarized glasses are available for a few bucks on the Internet. I'm glad I kept the glasses I got for 3rd Rock. | 
