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	House of Wax (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		The movie has pacing problems, introduces us to characters that have zero personality (thankfully, most of them get it by the end of the movie), and offers up cheap laughs (including repeated scenes in which Paris Hilton is caught on video taped making out with her boyfriend).
		This movie is disjointed beyond belief, and the fashion in which the writers explain things, is beyond stupid.
		House of Wax really isn’t a very good movie but there was enough visual bravado and horrific carnage in the final act to make this more effective than The Amityville Horror.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/house-of-wax.php (702 words)

	Blu-ray Review: House of Wax (2005) \| High-Def Digest
		'House of Wax' is far from the worst of this bunch, but it may be the most dispiriting, because the original 'House of Wax' could have served as the foundation for a genuinely unique, lively remake.
		Since key to the plot of 'House of Wax' is who (or whom?) is doing the killing, and what exactly is going on in the small, isolated town that serves as the film's setting, I won't offer any plot recap.
		Though low-budget by studio standards, 'House of Wax' is still far more polished than those old '70s slasher movies of yore, so dialogue is always clear and intelligible, and there no aural anomalies, such as scratchy high end or bad ADR to distract.
	bluray.highdefdigest.com /houseofwax2005.html (1809 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - House of Wax (2005)
		"House of Wax," a reinvisioning of the 1953 Vincent Price B-movie, borrows the general idea behind that film—a madman who turns his victims into wax figures for his ghastly museum—to concoct an affectionate throwback to the slasher genre of the '80s and '90s, albeit one smarter, more stylish, and eerier than most.
		Whereas most slasher films fall apart when dealing with their characters and bringing their stories to a conclusion, "House of Wax" features people who may just turn out to be victims, but seem genuine as a group of college-aged friends who are unaware of the danger lurking just around the corner.
		"House of Wax" is the first unequivocally good—and often downright great—popcorn entertainment of the still-early summer movie season, and the most satisfying release from Robert Zemeckis' Dark Castle horror label, to date.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/h/05_houseofwax.htm (1096 words)

	Horror Movie Review \| House of Wax (2005) Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The marginal twist on the formula in "House of Wax" is that the teens encounter a maniac who likes making real life wax statues of the unfortunate travellers he somehow manages to secret away to his surprisingly well-equipped lair, which is, in a stunning act of fiercely intellectual irony, made of actual wax.
		This in itself is of course a dispiriting side note, rather than an actual criticism, as "House of Wax" is no guiltier of unoriginality than the vast majority of recent genre releases.
		There really is only one reason for watching "House of Wax", and that is to answer the question 'does Paris Hilton die?' In the name of saving viewers from having to put themselves through an excruciatingly painful and dull experience, the answer is 'yes'.
	www.beyondhollywood.com.cob-web.org:8888 /reviews/houseofwax.htm (728 words)

	House of Wax (2005) Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt - Three Movie Buffs Review
		House of Wax wants to be an old school 80's slasher film, but by being afraid to go all the way, it only ends up being slasher-lite.
		The twist in this movie is that not only does the killer dispatch his victims in gory ways; he then preserves their bodies in wax, creating his own wax museum.
		One major area in which this movie fails to emulate its 80's ancestors is in its lack of sex and nudity.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=houseofwax (802 words)

	House of Wax (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Trivia: In the movie theatre where Carly and Nick are hiding, most of the wax figures were actually extras wearing masks.
		For those who enjoy Paris Hiltons stage presence, this may be a movie to see at home when its released on video, because at the screening I was at, we all laughed at her misfortunes through the movie and she is portrayed as a "woman of questionable values".
		The movie itself was pretty good (unlike the recent flood of weak horror flicks), it has everything a good horror should; a creepy villain, excessive violence, acts which make that average person cringe...this movie hit all the bases.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0397065 (425 words)

	House of Wax Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Based on 1953's House of Wax, this remake follows a group of college students whose road trip leads them to a rural town inhabited by the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors.
		And that's the problem with House of Wax: in the long lags between the gory and lascivious parts (and there are plenty of both) this is just about the dullest scary movie ever made.
		Based very, very loosely on a 1953 movie of the same name, House of Wax begins with a bunch of college students from somewhere in Florida—we know that because of their license plate—headed somewhere in Louisiana to watch a Big Football Game.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=140502 (974 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "House of Wax (2005)" Movie Review
		The town, whose main attraction is the unusually constructed Trudy’s House of Wax, is ominously quiet, the only residents apparently active being an elderly woman looking out her living room window and a belligerent gas station owner named Bo (Brian Van Holt, Black Hawk Down) paying his last respects at a local funeral.
		If this is the only reason you’re going to the movie, and lord knows it might be the only good reason to actually go, you’re sure to come away as enthused and excited as the preview crowd I saw it with.
		In the end, House of Wax is just as cold, impersonal and lifeless as the ghoulish statues populating it.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/h/houseofwax.htm (939 words)

	House of Wax (2005) Movie Review by Bo Senden
		House of Wax centers on a group of kids on their way to some big footballgame.
		House of Wax is the surprise of the year for me. This viscious little slasher is an all-in, super-entertaining film that sometimes surpasses your imagination via it's graphic violence.
		This movie was a part of the famous zombie trilogy known to us, this was to become the middle movie.
	www.horror-movies.ca /horror_reviews_918.htm (571 words)

	House of Wax [2005]
		I never expected House of Wax to get any Oscars, but I did think that maybe it would be a nice popcorn flick while watching the little WB kiddies get slaughtered.
		She plays a stupid-ass skank in the movie so obviously she was typecast to play herself.
		House of Wax is living proof that an original idea doesn't always equal a good idea.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/HouseOfWax/HouseOfWax.html (825 words)

	House of Wax (2005): Reviews
		House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone attending House of Wax could reasonably expect, assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much.
		It's a good thing Jaume Serra's House of Wax wasn't shot in 3-D like the original 1953 horror classic - Paris Hilton is in it and she doesn't have a third dimension.
		Actually I didn't see this movie, but just knowing that Paris Hilton was in the movie which I heard she was not very long in the movie made me want to puke.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/houseofwax (1177 words)

	House of Wax (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		House of Wax is a 2005 horror film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
		It was released to theaters May 6, 2005, and to DVD on October 25, 2005.
		In the basement of the house of wax, a flaming cauldron of boiling wax is knocked over, causing a fire that makes the whole house of wax start to buckle and melt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Wax_(2005_movie) (644 words)

	House of Wax
		House of Wax is not a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price movie with the same title.
		House of Wax is a cinematic candle in the wind.
		As 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.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/house_of_wax (1085 words)

	House of Wax (1953 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But when Cathy’s friend, Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk), visits the museum, she makes a discovery that leads to the horrifying truth behind the House of Wax: it is full of murdered people coated in wax.
		House of Wax was always shown in dual interlocked 35 mm projection with polarized glasses.
		House of Wax, originally titled The Wax Works, was Warner Bros. answer to the 3-D hit, Bwana Devil, which had been released the previous November.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Wax_(1953_movie) (558 words)

	"House of Wax" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		It has great sets (the house of wax and the town inhabited by wax people) but the plot was extremely ignorant.
		This movie is also not for children, and I feel very strongly about people who show movies like this to young ones, even teenagers.
		I’m still not sure why the wax houses creators, aka the evil twins (triplets) parents abused the one twin or why he has this grudge against innocent people when it’s his parents he hates.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/houseofwax2005.html (2251 words)

	House of Wax [2005 Original Soundtrack]: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		House of Wax's soundtrack is pretty adequate for a quickie summer horror picture about the stalking, killing, and eventual waxing of handsome young people.
		The monger of all that is sinister contributes 1996's NIN-ish "Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World." House of Wax throws some curveballs alongside standard alt metal fare like Disturbed ("Prayer") and Bloodsimple ("Path to Prevail").
		Still, House of Wax includes pretty much what you'd expect from the soundtrack to a movie so scary, it stars Paris Hilton.
	www.music.com /release/house_of_wax/1 (349 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: House of Wax Movie Review
		House of Wax presents another variation in a very old conundrum for movie critics.
		It features a group of annoying young people who are picked off one by one (often after enjoying some dirty sinful sex), a dark, spooky environment containing both buzzing fluorescent lights and ominous rural backwoods, and a gimmicky villain with whom the audience is (at least in part) intended to bond.
		House of Wax does right by Ambrose as a setting, using it to conjure the same skin-crawling atmosphere as the Vincent Price original upon which is it ever-so-passingly based.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /houseofwax.html (881 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: House Of Wax [2005]: DVD: Elisha Cuthbert,Chad Michael Murray,Brian Van Holt,Paris Hilton,Jared Padalecki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was supposed to be a horror movie, and it is quite poor one as horror.
		It starts off with a theme that many other horrors movies have used; a group of teenaged friends have car trouble in the middle of nowhere, half of the friends stay at the car and the other half go to a nearby "deserted" town in search of help.
		This is a slasher movie that kills the charactors in origional ways, sometimes involving wax and I was impressed with how gorey this movie was for a fifteen.
	www.amazon.co.uk /House-Wax-Elisha-Cuthbert/dp/B000A3DBDA (1303 words)

	Movie Review - MoviesOnline.ca
		And when they comes across Trudy’s House of Wax, things go downhill as one by one the group falls prey to two murderous brothers who have expanded upon the House of Wax - and created a town with wax-covered corpses of unlucky visitors.
		The first half is dull, but once we actually get to the House of Wax, then things get crazy and lead up to one of the best climatic scenes in horror movie history.
		House of Wax is a definite selection if you like your horror movies gory, and I wouldn’t recommend you eating anything until after the film is over.
	www.moviesonline.ca /movie_review_detail.php?id=516 (909 words)

	House Of Wax (2005) - Movie Review
		At last count, summer 2005 has approximately 2,005 remakes on the slate, from a re-imagined Bewitched to a rejuvenated War of the Worlds.
		House may attract curious onlookers who want to see tabloid fodder on screen in her first (major) feature role.
		House of wax isn't one of them neither is Mariah's supposed flop, Glitter.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/houseofwax2005 (723 words)

	House of Wax (2005)
		The 1953 film House of Wax introduced fans of Gothic horror to Vincent Price, who played a troubled artist fond of using his murder victims to populate a prominent wax museum.
		The 2005 House of Wax is in no way a remake of the Price classic, but it gets one thing right in depicting the wax museum as a tacky anachronism.
		And one could never accuse Trudy’s of false advertising – the entire structure is made of wax, right down to the walls, floors, furniture and (of course) the inanimate residents.
	www.scifidimensions.com /May05/houseofwax.htm (523 words)

	Horror Movie Review \| House of Wax (2005) Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton
		ouse of Wax" is the latest in a line of name-only remakes from the Dark Castle production house, following in the illustrious footsteps of "The House on Haunted Hill" and "Thirteen Ghosts".
		This really is all that the plot has to offer, and there is absolutely no attempt to spice up the standard formula in any fashion whatsoever.
		What really sticks in the craw however is the way the film makes no attempt to excel in any way, and seems to almost deliberately avoid pushing the envelope or stray from its by-the-numbers approach in every aspect of production.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/houseofwax.htm (725 words)

	House of Wax (2005) - Moviefone
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	House of Wax (2005) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in HOUSE OF WAX, an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
		Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose’s main attraction—Trudy’s House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures.
		As the friends uncover the town’s dark secrets, they are stalked by a demented killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /house_wax.htm (413 words)

	Movie Review: House of Wax (2005) @ Blogcritics.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There are a number of horror cliches at work, such as if you have sex, or plan on it, you will die, the heroine will inexplicably run up stairs when she should be getting out of the building, among others.
		The centerpiece of the film is the town itself, a wax building, wax people all over the town, and an underground labyrinth which seems to connect the entire town.
		The first, which I found to be the less desirable of the two, is that it is just another in a long line of lousy horror films with a cheesy story, weak acting and a predictable ending.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/05/07/105352.php (1990 words)

	Amazon.com: House of Wax (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Elisha Cuthbert,Chad Michael Murray,Brian Van Holt,Paris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Not only is everything inside made out of wax (or is it?), the House itself is Of Wax.
		They seem to be the kinds of movies that people are most apt either to love or hate, with little in between, which is no surprise considering that laughter and fear are such strong emotions.
		"House of Wax" is rated R for all the usual reasons: Blood, gore, mayhem, maimings, knifings, impalings, finger snippings (ouch, that's gotta hurt!), and decapitations.
	www.amazon.com /House-Wax-Widescreen-Jaume-Collet-Serra/dp/B000AM4P9K (1759 words)

	theyrecoming - horror movie review - House of Wax (2005)
		Well, that and I think getting yourself cast in a horror movie is a terrific use of her personal fortune and bizarre notoriety.
		You'd think a story about crazy artists who are making a complete reproduction of their town in animatronic wax figures created from the corpses of hapless visitors would be right up my alley.
		So let me suggest that you forget about this movie and go watch his House of Wax, or better yet, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
	www.theyrecoming.com /movies.php?num=310 (457 words)

	Movie Photos: House of Wax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The HOUSE OF WAX is a by-the-numbers horror movie whose only cute idea -- that living people are made into dead statues by using hot wax -- is lifted directly from the original Vincent Price film, upon which this version is loosely based.
		The acting is so generic and dead that they might as well have poured hot wax on all the characters in the first scene.
		HOUSE OF WAX runs way too long at 1:56.
	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2005_House_of_Wax_photo.html (451 words)

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