I haven't seen this in ages and the chance to have it on DVD was the reason I picked up the House of Wax that was recently released since this was a bonus feature.
Shot in two color Technicolor this is the source of the Vincent Price House of Wax and in some ways is better. Comedy aside this is a creepy movie with the off key color helping it greatly.
You know the drill, wounded wax sculptor reopens his wax museum just as some fiend begins stealing dead bodies from the morgue, is there a connection? Lionel Atwill plays the sculptor, Faye Wray the object of his eye. The movie is fast moving and a lot of fun. When the unmasking scene finally happens its both horrifying and incredibly sad, the villain playing it with a just a touch of pathos missing from Price's film. The horror is undercut by the fact that we see the makeup early in the film, which is creepy but undermines the shock at the end.
An old creepy creaky classic.
Shot in two color Technicolor this is the source of the Vincent Price House of Wax and in some ways is better. Comedy aside this is a creepy movie with the off key color helping it greatly.
You know the drill, wounded wax sculptor reopens his wax museum just as some fiend begins stealing dead bodies from the morgue, is there a connection? Lionel Atwill plays the sculptor, Faye Wray the object of his eye. The movie is fast moving and a lot of fun. When the unmasking scene finally happens its both horrifying and incredibly sad, the villain playing it with a just a touch of pathos missing from Price's film. The horror is undercut by the fact that we see the makeup early in the film, which is creepy but undermines the shock at the end.
An old creepy creaky classic.