Yet for a so-called exploitation film, Wax is slow to exploit. Its leisurely setup is a fright-challenged snooze, and at nearly two hours it's bloated for a slasher flick.
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05/06/05
House of Wax (2005)
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Reviews Counted:145
Fresh:37
Rotten:108
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Bearing little resemblance to the 1953 original, House of Wax is a formulaic but better-than-average teen slasher flick.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In this remake of the classic 1953 Andre de Toth film that starred Vincent Price, horrors abound in a creepy wax museum. A group of road-tripping Florida teenagers (Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael... [More]
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton
Director: Jaume Collet-Sera
Reviews for House of Wax
The original was shot in 3-D; this, by contrast, is 1-D all the way.
05/06/05
Most of this seems like a Marilyn Manson video.
05/06/05
Top CriticThere is not one redeeming moment in this movie, unless you consider Paris Hilton stripping down to her underwear and getting killed redeeming.
05/06/05
The acting in House of Wax is as horrible as you might expect.
05/06/05
The new remake of House of Wax proves it's actually possible for a movie to get dumber as it goes along.
05/06/05
Not to focus too much on Paris Hilton, but she brings an art to bad acting.
05/06/05
And in keeping with the wax, wax, everywhere WAX concept of this goofy little gore-bucket, I'll just glibly assume that the screenplay was written in crayon.
05/06/05
"House of Wax" is a classic, of a kind ... It plays its alarming carnage straight, and it's very scary.
05/06/05
The filmmakers have one good idea ... Otherwise, the picture remains imagination-free.
05/06/05
This isn’t boring, but is as predictable as can be.
05/06/05
low-rent in every respect... When her character, Paige, performs a striptease, Hilton's moves are so lethargic and mechanical she's about as arousing as Bugs Bunny in drag.
05/06/05
The acting in House of Wax ranges from bad to worse.
05/06/05
House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone attending House of Wax could reasonably expect, assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much.
05/06/05
Top CriticRedeemed by the surreal nightmare of its fiery finale, when it's not a wicked witch but the world itself that seems to be crying, 'I'm melting...'
05/06/05
Irritating, boring, poorly acted, poorly directed and poorly written.
05/06/05
This is bad horror at its best: hokey, predictable and completely unrealistic.
05/06/05
Enough of an original spin on the premise to make this the creepiest horror remake in quite some time.
05/06/05
Rookie director Jaume Collet-Serra concentrates on mild shocks, unpleasant bloodiness and a dank stickiness in the set design.
05/06/05
A sadistically bland entertainment that oversells its reveals and lets its suspense drip so long that it would be nice if something (anything!) happened.
05/06/05
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