House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.
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05/05/05
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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
The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula.
05/05/05
Top CriticA by-the-numbers slasher flick.
05/05/05
Top CriticThe acting is so generic and dead that they might as well have poured hot wax on all the characters in the first scene.
05/05/05
A roughhouse between the Hayes's dingbatty script...and director Sera's winking and surprisingly skillful treatment of it...ultimately disappointing.
05/05/05
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
A crummy horror flick.
05/05/05
Top CriticScary, 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
Hilton is the cinematic equivalent of a stray dog, an untrained extra that accidentally wandered into the shot and quickly began making love to the camera.
05/05/05
House of Wax is suspenseful, well-paced and, other than Hilton, capably acted.
05/05/05
As embarrassingly guilty pleasures go, House of Wax does a decent job of molding itself to your needs.
05/05/05
A horror movie can get away with a lot, but once it crosses a certain line, it is insulting to viewers. House of Wax crosses that line.
05/05/05
Top CriticAs slick as it is, House of Wax basically serves up the kind of gory, oozing jolts that will transport some toward a kind of antic release and others towards the nearest exits.
05/05/05
Top CriticThe remake of House of Wax anchors itself firmly in the time-honored tradition of horror exploitations.
05/05/05
There's more to good filmmaking than buying the rights to a classic title.
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
Though this is a step up from the usual teen snuff-movie fare, it still very much wanes more than it waxes.
05/05/05
Proves The Maxim Advanced Sfx Does Not Equate A Better Movie.
05/05/05
Cruelty to stupid characters isn’t disturbing, it’s just condescending. And being mean for mean’s sake is an empty enterprise, in my book.
05/04/05
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