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05/27/05
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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.
Theatrical Release:2005-Summer
Box Office: $32,000,834
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
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Reviews for House of Wax
Gosh, I have to admit it: it’s more enjoyable than I thought to watch Paris die.
05/06/05
First-time director Jaume Collet-Serra lingers over the victims at lengths discomfortingly gratuitous even by slasher standards. But he also demonstrates a droll touch.
05/03/05
This is a well-made film with a lot more gore than you're expecting and a lot less humor than you're expecting.
06/16/05
Fright films that deliver the shocking goods with noticeable dashes of wit and style are so hard to find these days, even a flawed one such as House of Wax deserves to be given a chance.
05/14/05
This Wax is more junk food quality, skipping along inside its traditional horror trappings with eagerness and a rare lack of cynicism or pale ghost children.
05/05/05
House of Wax is suspenseful, well-paced and, other than Hilton, capably acted.
05/05/05
Don't blame Hilton for this misbegotten Wax job
05/07/05
It's nowhere near as punishing as Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses, but it's increasingly tense and resourceful and, in the end, it gets the sick job done.
05/06/05
House of Wax is a sturdy and cohesive representative of what tends to be a flimsy and tawdry B-movie genre.
05/05/05
Top CriticAs a frightfest it's better than today's average.
05/05/05
House of Wax is incredibly old fashioned, sticking strongly to the rhythms of a million exploitation cheapies from the early 80s.
05/05/05
Scary, scream-and-squirm-inducing, and suspenseful, it's the first unequivocally good--and often downright great--popcorn entertainment of the still-early summer movie season.
05/05/05
Enough of an original spin on the premise to make this the creepiest horror remake in quite some time.
05/06/05
More gleeful, more deliciously sick, and cleverer than most.
05/05/05
The whole thing is vacuously enjoyable, downright nasty in places and, despite the fact that the ending is rushed, has a pretty spectacular finish.
07/21/05
Delivers what its fans come for--gore, violence, a little sex, lots of wax.
05/02/05
Makes up for its idiot plot with a gallon of gore.
05/24/05
After one gets past the trendy casting of Paris Hilton, this above-average horror flick actually surfaces from the bloody pit of remakes clutching a few decent ideas.
09/02/05
Not a classic by any means, but satisfactory in the basics of the genre.
05/14/05
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