House of Wax Reviews

In 1974, a woman is making a wax sculpture in the kitchen while her son eats breakfast in his highchair. Her husband enters with another son who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place by his father. After being strapped and taped to his chair by his mother, he scratches her hand. She then slaps her child across the face.

In 2005, Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) with her friend Paige (Paris Hilton) and Paige's boyfriend Blake (Robert Ri'chard) are on their way to a highly anticipated football game in Louisiana. Eventually, Carly's delinquent twin brother, Nick (Chad Michael Murray) and his friend Dalton (Jon Abrahams) also join them. Night falls and the group decides to set up camp for the night. The campsite is later visited by a stranger in a pickup truck who shines his lights at the campsite, but refuses to leave or address them until Nick smashes a headlight with a bottle. The next morning, Carly and Paige go exploring, Carly falls down a hill and lands in deer remains and sees a fake hand. Wade's car's fan belt is found to be damaged. The group meets a disheveled, rural man named Lester (Damon Herriman), who offers to drive Carly and Wade to the nearby town of Ambrose to get a new fan belt, while the rest of them go to the football game.

The two arrive at Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. Unable to find an attendant at the auto mechanics shop, they wander into the church, disrupting a funeral. There, they meet a mechanic named Bo (Brian Van Holt), who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While waiting for the services to end, Carly and Wade visit the wax museum, which itself is made of wax and is the central feature of the town. Afterward, they follow Bo to his house to find a proper fan belt. While there, Wade is crippled and stabbed by a long-haired man with a wax facemask named Vincent. Bo grabs Carly, super glues her lips shut and locks her in a cellar. Dalton and Nick arrive in Ambrose to look for Carly and Wade. Vincent meanwhile strips and shaves Wade, then puts him in a chair with a metal contraption on his head which pins his eyes open. Vincent pulls a couple of levers which showers the immobile Wade with hot wax.

While Nick questions Bo if he has seen his sister, Carly tries signaling for help by sticking her finger out of a vent, trying to get her brother's attention. Bo notices her finger sticking out, and snips the tip off with a pair of dikes. Carly falls screaming in pain and later pries her lips open in order to scream for help. Nick, hearing her screams, knocks Bo out after he attacks him. Nick locks Bo out of the station and finds his sister, and the two escape. Dalton finds Wade who is alive but he is unable to move or talk because he is immobilized by the layer of wax covering his body. Dalton peels off the wax but realizes he is peeling Wade's skin off. Vincent finds Dalton and accidentally slashes Wade's face with a knife. Wade dies from shock. Vincent later chases and decapitates Dalton, killing him too. Meanwhile, Nick and Carly realize that the wax figures are actually real people – Bo and Vincent have been trapping people in wax in order for the figures to look more realistic. Bo finds Carly and Nick at the theatre, but they escape after Nick shoots Bo with a crossbow.

Vincent goes to their camp site, kills Blake, and chases Paige to an abandoned sugar mill. After being stabbed in the foot, Paige hides in a car but Vincent finds her, and impales her in the head with a spear. As Vincent brings Blake and Paige's bodies Carly and Nick overhear Bo and Vincent talking and discovers that they were conjoined twins. Their father, a doctor, performed a controversial procedure to separate the brothers. The surgery left half of Vincent's face badly deformed, forcing him to wear a wax mask for the rest of his life. Nick and Carly find the basement where they find Dalton's body covered in wax. Nick tries to remove the contraption but ends up twisting his head. Bo and Vincent find and chase Carly and Nick to the House of Wax. Nick and Carly unintentionally set the House of Wax on fire, causing the entire structure to melt. Carly beats Bo to death with a baseball bat, which enrages Vincent. Vincent chases Nick and Carly on to the balcony but Carly and Nick stab Vincent in the hip, thus killing him. As the House of Wax melts from the fire, the room in which all three are in collapses, causing Vincent to land on Bo's corpse. Nick and Carly escape the fiery House of Wax and breathlessly watch as it melts to the ground.

The ambulance and police arrive at daybreak, reporting that Ambrose has been abandoned for ten years when the local sugar mill failed. The policeman (Andy Anderson) reveals that there was a third son of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair who happens to be Lester. Nick and Carly are then taken to hospital. As the ambulance leaves, Carly sees Lester looking and smiling at her while sitting on his truck with Vincent's dog, Sandwich.

Seriously, I don’t figure out the so much hate for this movie! People exaggerate only for Paris’ presence at the cast, yes she’s dumb and we’re saying that performing it’s not her best, but on this movie she interpreted well the character, and you wanna know why? Coz she interprets a tipic teenager of those horror movies, pretty, nasty and stupid, so it wasn’t that hard for her. What I love most on this movie is that it takes so long to start the killings, that is, it takes a while to get used to the characters, but they can at least to me, create a connection with the audience (Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murrays and Jared Padalecki) The House Of Wax also contains violence, blood, and a little of suspense, the set is really scary, the abandoned village and the people’s wax are really realistic, and the museum done only of wax it’s amazing, the death scene of Page and Wade "waxed" and only the eyes moving and other scenes deserve credit because it proves that it isn’t just a "teen movie" and the two brothers (bad guys) are cruel and a bit scary!
Finally, I believe the movie is not an award worthy, but is more worthy of terror, and is certainly watchable!

Obviously, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but, somehow, I still ended up watching it, mostly because I have a weak spot for Elisha Cuthbert. Actually, to my own surprise, I thought it was actually not that bad after all. I mean, let me put it this way... Before watching this, I thought it would be completely terrible but eventually, even though it was indeed nothing impressive, I thought it was still rather watchable. Furthermore, I didn't really get the fuss about Paris Hilton. Sure, in real life, she seems really obnoxious but in this movie, I thought she was actually alright. I mean, come on, you don't need to be Meryl Streep to be in a slasher movie and I thought she did what was expected from her character, no more, no less. A part from that, I kind of liked the whole wax concept towards the end and there were some rather visually impressive scenes during this climax. To conclude, of course, it remains a rather average movie but I don't think it is as bad as everyone is saying and if you love slasher movies, there is even a chance you may end up actually enjoying it.

The only good thing about this movie is the murder of paris hilton,even if it's only on tv screen :/

Not only were there one teen stars, but both Paris hilton and Chad Michael Murray appeared in this film. I know that is where some of it's intake of money came from, a shitload of people who went to see either of these people. There also was a bad to these people in the film, people decieded that it might not be cool to get caught in the movie theatre while seeing this. All I know is that both of these people had no affect in my decision to see the film; as none of them had an effect in my life. I went to see it because wax sculptures have always fascinated me. The fact that something looks lifelike and actually might come to life intises me enough, much like any of the puppet master flicks. the trailer got me (saw it while being at another flick and said what the hell, i'll check this out) And was impressed by the furosity of it. An entire town turned into dust, with all of one inhabit with a pulse who seems to talk; little do the teens know he is the one running and animating the town entirley. While waiting for their car to be fixed, the group stumbles upon a wax museum which creeps them out. The sculptures look way too real. Just for them there is going to be shortly a new group of wax sculptures... Out of them! The imagery shown in this film was done very well, the camera didn't turn away when you though it would and the decapitations, impalments, and actual process of turning life into art are not left to the imagination. Also, halfway through filming there was a fire and the set was completley burned to the ground. Just seeing how they recovered from that was another reason to catch this movie, and i coulden't say i notcied when the film's new set came into play from the old one. Don't let the stars of the movie let you stop yourself from watching this film, The skinny bitch gets hers anyway :)

Nick Jones: You're saying that that's a real person... underneath?

I loved this movie, it was awesome. I really like the part where the pole went through Paris Hilton's forehead.

I'm a big scaredy cat.........I was totally freaked out by this movie, but I still loved it.