Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 12/20/2005
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
A bunch of college students are stranded in a small town where suffering for art takes on a whole new meaning in this tale of terror.
Carly (
Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend,
Wade (
Jared Padalecki), have hit the road with a handful of their friends to attend a championship college football game; tagging along with them are
Carly's bratty friend
Paige (
Paris Hilton,
Carly's trouble-making twin brother
Nick (
Chad Michael Murray), and
Blake (
Robert Ri'chard),
Paige's latest boy toy. While camping out for the night, the gang makes the mistake of getting on the wrong side of a mysterious local redneck, and the next morning they discover that Wade's car no longer works. As the others continue on to the big game, Carly and Wade make their way into the closest town, Ambrose, and discover it's all but deserted, except for a local tourist attraction, the House of Wax. However, it isn't long before they find out why the wax sculptures at the museum look so freakishly real, and discover a pair of murderous brothers are keen on making them part of the next exhibit.
House of Wax is an in-name-only remake of the well-remembered 1953 3-D
horror outing starring
Vincent Price, which was in turn based on the 1933 picture
Mystery of the Wax Museum.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
