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Summary: Best in 3-D
Review: I saw this film as a child in it's original 3-D incarnation. The scene where Vinnie loses face spooked me so bad I had the hiccups for two days. It is a shame this is not the 3-D version, many of the camera angles and shots really showed off one of the best of the fifties 3-D genre. Well, enjoy it for it's cast, the fabulous color and hammy drama anyway. This film is an old fashioned thriller, but does not contain anything that would be objectionable for youngsters, but might spook some tots. Get it, pop up some popcorn and prepare to groan and gasp as The House of Wax swings wide open it's doors, just for you.
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Summary: This Film is a Must!
Review: I saw this movie at my school in a somewhat theatre experience, but it was worth it. I wish that I could've seen this film in the original 3-D process, because then it would've been much better. But I thought that Vincent Price gave a really great performance as the mad curator of a wax museum that was burned down by his money hungry partner that wanted the insurance money. In a very creepy few minutes, all of the wax figures melt down as Vincent Price tries to get out. Then VIncent Price opens a wax museum that a woman recognises her friend as the Joan of Arc model. She then gets to suspecting, but we already know that Price uses real dead bodies for his models. I won't give away the ending, but I think that you must see this movie. Price is the best villan of all because he gives in more acting than anyone else in the film. I suggest that you see this movie because it shows 50's horror at its peak. Watch this movie. It shows Vincent Price when he first got into the horror market, which was made for him
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Summary: movie good, DVD BAD!
Review: I saw this movie on Turner Classic Movies, and it was beautiful looking and entertaining and atmospheric and I just LOVE Vincent Price. So to me it seemed a perfect idea to own this DVD. But I should have read more of the professional reviews about how awful the picture quality is. Too many reviewers on Amazon talk about how great the movie is (and it is), but we're supposed to also be reviewing the DVD itself. And I feel I must warn anyone who cares about good quality DVDs to STAY AWAY! This is one of the grainiest, blurriest and worst looking DVDs I've ever seen (not exaggerating). On first impression, even my wife said, "Why is that so grainy looking?" I had to tell her that it was the DVD. She was sure something was wrong with our player or the tv, because DVDs are NOT supposed to look like this. It didn't help that we had both recently seen the movie on TCM, where it was beautiful and crystal clear. So I have to ask: If TCM can show the movie in perfect condition, why can't the DVD do the same?
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: I watched the 1953 movie "House of Wax" on television not too long ago, and I enjoyed it very much. It stars Vincent Price as the wax museum creator. The beginning of the movie showed the wax museum burned down by a guy who started the fire (for
insurance reasons), destroying the wax figures. Later, Price turned into a monster (from the fire that destroyed his face) that killed people and made THEM into wax figures for his new museum. There is a "surprise ending", so if you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it. :) This movie was originally viewed in
3-D, but since I haven't seen it that way, I still liked watching it in regular viewing.
The strangest scene to me is the "paddleball" guy, who looked a lot like "Dr. Bombay" in TV's Bewitched. It creeped me out when I watched him talking and paddling that ball - RIGHT AT YOU.
This movie does have some humor in it, such as one of the women visitors in the museum kept fainting at the "executions" as it got worse during the tour (beginning from hanging to the guillotine). :)
In conclusion, I think this is a very good movie, even if it is more than 40 years old. :) Go see it on VHS or DVD - you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: The House of Whacks
Review: In the tiny print on the "House of Wax" cover it says that you are also getting the 1933 classic, "Mystery of the Wax Museum." Which makes this DVD a great deal. The House of Wax is the classic 1950's remake of the Lionel Atwill/Fay Wray classic. Both movies are great and present great villians who stalk great beauties. They are equally eerie and scenic but the "Mystery of the Wax Museum" has the advantage of being pre-code which allows it to be saucy and even a little daring.
Both films have fantastic supporting casts. The Mystery... has the wise-cracking Glenda Farrell and House... has Frank Lovejoy and an early performance by the great/late Charles Bronson.
Both films have wonderful sets and fine mad sceintist's labs (well, insane wax modeler's museums) The Mystery...is also a nice example of early two strip technicolor process. Also both movies are presented in good clean, clear form. I applaud the company for using good master copies to create this DVD.Halloween is coming and you need a good movie to watch. These films are two goodies from days gone by that are good to watch and hear. Lose youself in foggy streets and shadowy museums. They are of an age when masters created horror forms of wax and whacked-out disfigured artists created figures in boiling wax.
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Summary: House of Wax in 3D
Review: Its the early 50,s , you are a little tyke, your big sister takes you to the theater. You see a the promotional stuff on display in the lobby. Outside pennants are on display offering the fantastic 3D process where YOU are actually IN the picture. This was certainly a joy ride then as it is now. The paddle man scene doesnt quite make it without your 3d process and glasses. Dont forget if you indeed took off your glasess during the picture a headache woud soon follow. No matter, Vincent Price does it all here. this is his type of film and from 1953 on through most of his career he was eternally typecast...and are we not happy he was. ? Look for Charles Buchinski( Bronson) and actor Roy Roberts in supporting roles.
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Summary: Im 14 and i....
Review: LOVED THIS MOVIE... I watch the AMC Channel waiting for this to come on again. It has to be one of the greatest movies Ive ever seen
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Summary: Special effects were good for this time....
Review: Movie was good I thought. Always liked Price. If you look real close you will see a young Charles Bronson. The paddle board man was a cool addition to the movie. It really set off the 3-D type film.
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Summary: Should have included a Field Seqential 3-D version!
Review: Not that many people are aware of the Field Sequential 3-D.
This is a 3-D TV system that uses special shutter glasses that can be purchased here through Amazon in a set that includes 3 DVD's using this process. This system Is the only way to view a 3-D film effectively on TV to date. The result is about 90% close to the effect you will see in a theatre showing.. like IMAX and Disney and Universal.
These glasses are made of sturdy plastic and clear not these cardboard red and blue pieces of garbage, so you can view the film without constricted to seeing red and blue colors and with this system you will see more actual 3-D depth with the films true colors.. It's really amazing!
For some add reason the big studios haven't adapted to include a separate version of a 3-D title in this great format.
Films like:
"House of Wax","Kiss Me Kate","Friday the 13th Part 3", "Robot Monster, "Cat Woman on the Moon", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "Jaws 3" are all now in 2-D DVD, but were originally shown in 3-D and could have been included using the Field Seqential 3-D system on the same disc with the 2-D version.
In Japan in the late 80's there were a few 3-D titles released using Field Sequential and can be found on e-bay converted to DVD and VHS.
Why aren't the studios producing these now!
I boycott any film DVD release that was originally intended to be seen in 3-D that's only presented in a 2-D version or anaglyph (Red and Blue Glasses). The studios should really be awaken to this great 3-D system.
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Summary: Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, and Lionel Atwill
Review: Prof. Henry Jarrod is an eccentric sculptor in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. His business partner interupts late one night, and an argument breaks out. A fight ensues, and their Wax Museum burns to the ground. Has Jarrod died, or has he mysteriously returned to haunt those who have abused him? 1953's "House of Wax" successfully exploited new horror legend Vincent Price and provided small roles for future stars Charles Bronson and Carolyn Jones. He had only one good eye, but ironically, director Andre de Toth delivers a lively, 3-D, color-splashed epic; his camera glides fluidly through wax museum corridors, and down shadowy, rainy, downtown streets. (The actual New York set for "House of Wax" can still be toured at Warner Bros.' studios in Burbank. Calif..) This brand new DVD is a sharp, spicy transfer. It includes scene selections, a trailer, and a curious newsreel of the film's premiere. Attending the Gala is Ronald Reagan, Danny Thomas, and an elderly Bela Lugosi dragging a rope-tied actor in a gorilla suit. "House of Wax" marked the ascendence of new horror-king Vincent Price, and sadly, the career demise of Bela Lugosi. The huge success of "House of Wax" can be traced back to the original, 1933's "Mystery of the Wax Museum" also released on this DVD for the very first time. And guess what? "Mystery" is the better film; a shocking, haunting, color-bathed chiller starring former Broadway actor Lionel Atwill. Almost the same story, Atwill as the sculptor adds pathos, even warmth, to the mad genius character. Atwill talks lovingly to his wax creations, his "children". Beautiful co-star Fay Wray acted in "Mystery of the Wax Museum" and "King Kong" simultaneously. Wray reported: "At Warners' doing 'Mystery', Merian C. Cooper would wait for me...I'd go over to RKO on a weekend.." "Mystery of the Wax Museum" features Anton Grot's masterful set construction and Michael Curtiz's sure-handed, precision direction. An astounding showman, Michael Curtiz peaked creatively 9 years later with "Casablanca". Housed in London, the last nitrate print of "Mystery of the Wax Museum" began showing signs of decomposition. Incredibly, it was destroyed in 1954. Unseen for a generation, an original 35mm color print, worn but usable, was found in Jack Warner's private vault in 1969. Now a restored early film classic, "Mystery of the Wax Museum" was released on VHS-tape by MGM in 1978. Strangely, the color-separation on this video tape(in 2-tone Technicolor) is of higher quality than the DVD. As mis-guided sculptor Ivan Igor, Lionel Atwill shines, in perhaps his finest work. Atwill, age 61, died of cancer in 1946. He left a $250,000 estate to his 29-year-old widow, and his only son. His son's name was Lionel.
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