There's an undeniably comic aspect to these early interchanges, With another worker at the display who brings in drinks for the guests too early. A couple of odd vignettes ensue when theĭo return to the wax museum, including being greeted at the door by an odd little person, one who later gets into a brief Lincoln schmoozes with aĬollege students, urging to them to return to his abode later for a personal tour of the wax museum. Rather bizarrely sets up a wax museum in the middle of a suburban neighborhood, albeit in a kind of gothic mansion. One of the time honored traditions of horror films built around wax museums is that the impresarios behind the institutions are a bit unhinged.Ĭertainly seems to be the case with regard to Waxwork's imperious but weirdly charming David Lincoln (David Warner), a kind of oily Sprinkled throughout both films, there's also an unapologetically cheeky ambience that gives the film a decidedly different tone than other films While there's menace galore in many of the Plot conceit of both films, wherein various wax displays come to life, with anyone who ventures beyond the velvet rope (so to speak) transportedĪlternate dimension where whatever is being depicted in the waxwork exhibit becomes "reality". (and creep ing) elements, but they also have a whimsical quality that place them pretty solidly in horror comedy territory. Waxwork and its sequel Waxwork II: Lost in Time have occasional Their centers only made such exhibits seem downright evil.
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Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 18, 2016Įmporiums like Madame Tussaud's were probably spooky even before films like Mystery of the Wax Museum (available as a supplement on the House of Wax 3D Blu-ray release) came along, but there's little doubt that a series of films with wax
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