Gosh, I have to admit it: it’s more enjoyable than I thought to watch Paris die.
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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
While the end is predictable, the order that the kids are picked off is not. It might feel new to viewers who haven't seen many of the 'classic' 80s slasher flicks.
05/06/05
If you’re okay with standard slasher flicks and you enjoy grandiose special effects, then House of Wax might be worth a trip to the theater for you. If not, wait for the DVD.
05/06/05
House of Wax is not a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price movie with the same title. Rather, it is the umpty-third version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
05/06/05
If you like that kind of thing, and you can get past the first 20 minutes or so, the good news is that the movie keeps getting better as it goes along.
05/06/05
House of Wax really heats up in the final reel. That, considering the subject matter, is one way to bring down the house.
05/06/05
House of Wax is practically a textbook case on how not to make [a horror] film.
05/06/05
With a minimally talented cast, it focuses on the most ludicrous, repulsive aspects: Paris Hilton, the slaughter and melting wax.
05/06/05
[P]imping... Paris Hilton to movie audiences is [the] primary reason for the existence of this crass ‘remake’...
05/06/05
Paris Hilton is the least of the film's problems, and when Paris Hilton is the least of your problems, you know you're in trouble.
05/05/05
House of Wax is Paris Hilton’s best movie.
05/05/05
More gleeful, more deliciously sick, and cleverer than most.
05/05/05
...dominated by long, unnecessarily prolonged sequences in which the various characters are either poking around where they shouldn't or hiding from a deformed maniac.
05/05/05
House of Wax is a cinematic candle in the wind. Through gusty horror clichés, tepid acting and cheap thrills, it somehow never completely dims.
05/05/05
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
I wanted to see Paris Hilton die early and painfully. Nothing else really mattered.
05/05/05
2005's House of Wax turns out to be a better reimagining of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" than last year's lousy remake
05/05/05
It’s sad that the film had to place Hilton front & center with a video camera joke, then a BJ gag before finally having a large phallic object go right through her face.
05/05/05
In this film, Paris is the brains of the outfit.
05/05/05
Related to the 1953 Vincent Price film in name, embalming technique and Warner Bros. pedigree only, the new House of Wax is a dreary, predictable tale.
05/05/05
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September 23, 2008:
Selsus.com: Cekici, seksi, zevkli ve urpertici bir korku. 
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Cineteka.com: Quente, sexy, deliciosamente, assustador.
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