House of Wax
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | House of Wax |
| Original title | House of Wax |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 abridged version: FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| script |
Chad Hayes Carey Hayes Charles Belden |
| production |
Joel Silver Robert Zemecki's Susan Levin |
| music | John Ottman |
| camera | Stephen F. Windon |
| cut | Joel Negron |
| occupation | |
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House of Wax is a horror film from 2005. It is referred to as a remake of the horror classics The Secret of the Wax Museum (1933) and The Cabinet of Professor Bondi (1953), but has little in common with the plot and received very bad reviews.
action
Friends of the six college students, Carly, Paige, Wade, Blake, Dalton and Nick, arrive in two cars for one of the most important football games of the year and decide to spend the night outdoors on the way. At her sleeping place, however, there is a disturbing encounter with an unknown trucker. He drives towards the friends' tents, stands in front of them for a while with the headlights on, and then moves away again.
The next morning they notice a broken fan belt on Wade's car. Therefore, he and his girlfriend Carly have a mysterious stranger take them to the small town of Ambrose to find a replacement. Meanwhile, the other young people continue their journey in Blake's car, but soon have to turn back due to a traffic jam.
When they arrive in town, Carly and Wade go to the local gas station, but they can't find anyone there. Therefore, they go to the nearby church, unintentionally disrupting a funeral mass that is currently taking place. Embarrassed, they leave the church, but petrol station owner Bo, one of the mourners, follows them and promises to help them after the funeral.
To bridge the waiting time, Carly and Wade visit the striking local wax museum . Its building is made entirely of wax, but to Wade's astonishment does not contain any replicas of celebrities. Some time later, the couple returns to the gas station, where Bo asks the two young people to accompany him to his house to pick up the desired replacement part. Somewhat puzzled, they agree. When Wade wants to go to the toilet beforehand, Bo offers him the use of his private toilet.
Leaving the bathroom, which is at the end of a hallway in the tank attendant's house, Wade discovers a room with strange furnishings such as bovine embryos, which he therefore examines more closely. When the light goes out shortly afterwards and the door cannot be opened, he panics and does not notice how Vincent, Bo's twin brother, gains access to the room through a loose board in the floor and cuts through Wade's Achilles tendon with scissors. Vincent's face was completely disfigured during the operation to separate Bo - the two are Siamese twins - and he is therefore wearing a wax mask. He takes the unconscious victim to his wax figure workshop, where he cleans and fixes it in order to finally coat it with liquid wax.
Meanwhile, Carly is embroiled in a life and death fight with Bo, who turns out to be the trucker of the previous night. When the young woman managed to escape, she ran into the church in the hope of help, where she discovered that all the people present were corpses covered in wax. She is then overpowered by Bo and tied up in the basement of the gas station. After Wade and Carly have still not shown up at the agreed meeting point that evening, Dalton and Carly's brother Nick go in search of them. The latter meets Bo in front of the gas station and can help his sister to free herself. At this point in time, however, Dalton, Blake and Paige had already been killed by Vincent: Dalton was beheaded with two knives after he had previously found the calf made into a wax figure sitting on a wing, Blake died from a knife stab in the neck and Paige after a throwing attack with a steel pipe that bores through her entire skull.
Shortly after Nick and Carly discover Dalton's corpse completely covered in wax in the basement of the wax museum, they are attacked by Vincent. During the fight that now follows, Nick pours out a cauldron with boiling wax, which immediately ignites. Nick and Carly finally manage to overpower and kill Bo and his brother Vincent. In the meantime, the fire has spread across the entire house, which is now rapidly melting. The siblings manage to dig their way through the soft walls at the last second before the entire building collapses.
The smoke generated the local police and the ghost town is being investigated by many investigators. Rescue workers who have also arrived take Carly and Nick to a hospital. Meanwhile, one of the investigators finds out that Bo and Vincent have another brother, whereupon the man who led the friends to Ambrose can be seen smiling and waving after the ambulance.
Reviews
- Eric D. Snider ( ericdsnider.com ): "Paris Hilton is the smallest problem in this film and if Paris Hilton is the smallest of the problems, you are really in trouble."
- In the Boston Globe , critic Wesley Morris describes the actors' performance as "bad".
- Rob Vaux ( Flipside Movie Emporium ) rated House of Wax as "cheap and dirty entertainment".
- Alina Bacher ( filmstarts.de ): "Most women are familiar with the fact that wax can cause hellish pain. So it was only a matter of time before Hollywood's psychopathic serial killers discovered what is probably the most painful hair removal product in the world as an instrument of torture. "
Others
- The film grossed just $ 32 million in the US at $ 30 million , but grossed another $ 30 million worldwide. In addition, he made $ 40 million from the DVD release.
- "House of Wax" was nominated for the Golden Raspberry ridiculous prize for both the "Worst Film 2005" and the "Worst Remake or Continuation 2005" category. Paris Hilton received the dubious award in the "Worst Supporting Actress 2005" category.
- She also received the Teen Choice Award for "Best Scream".
- The original opening scene was replaced by a different one, otherwise it would have been too obvious that the main characters had already met the killer at the campsite.
- For the film, Madame Tussauds made a wax figure of Paris Hilton's character Paige in London.
- The cinema in Ambrose announces the film What really happened to Baby Jane? on.
- The name of one of the twins is a tribute to Vincent Price , who starred in The Cabinet of Professor Bondi .
- The film was shot on the Gold Coast of Australia , in Oxenford , Queensland in Australia .
Web links
- House of Wax in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- House of Wax atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Website for the film
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - No youth approval from House of Wax at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for House of Wax . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 464 K).
- ↑ Ericsnider.com: House of Wax
- ↑ Flipside Movie Emporium: House of Wax ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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^ Filmstarts.de: House of Wax
- Akon Benassam ("filmneu.net"): "This film is the worst thing I've ever seen"
- ↑ Razzie Award: 26th Annual Razzie ® Award Nominees for Worst Picture ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Razzie Awards: 26th Annual Razzie ® Award Nominees for Worst Remake Or Sequel ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Razzie Awards: 26th Annual Razzie ® Award Nominees for Worst Supporting Actress ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Teen Choice Award: Nominees & Winners
- ↑ Movie spotlight shines on Queensland (PDF; 317 kB)
