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Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk,
Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Charles Bronson
Country: U.S.
Year: 1953
Running Time: 90min
Format: 35mm, two projector 3-D
House of Wax was the first 3-D movie to be distributed by
a major studio. It stars Vincent Price as brilliant sculptor
and a co-owner of a wax museum, Henry Jarrod. He loves his
various works, though his business partner, Burke, is only
interested in making money by concocting an insurance scam.
Burke sets fire to the museum with Jarrod inside, leaving
him for dead.
Jarrod, however, resurfaces with a new gallery where he displays
his exhibition of horrors. Too coincidentally, new figures
appear in Jarrod's museum as his enemies disappear. When a
young woman recognizes one of the wax figures as her murdered
roommate, she goes to the police. Will she stop Jarrod's scheme
or become his greatest creation?
Created and conceived as a 3-D movie, House of Wax makes
great use of the effect as it is sure to have you spilling
your popcorn as you duck to get out of the way of flying objects.
--Dan Krovich
Presented By: Chris Kaltenbach
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