***SPOILERS*** Great 3D special effects as well as acting by Vincent Price as the deranged & disfigured sculpture Henry Jarrod makes the remake of the 1933 horror classic "House of Wax" even better then the original. Jarrod who was burned beyond recognition when his wax museum was set on fire, in order to collect $25,000.00 in insurance, by his greedy stock broker partner Matthew Burke,Roy Roberts, came back later looking the "Phantom of the Opra", without his mask on, to exact revenge on him. That by leaving Burke hanging at the end of a rope in his office buildings elevator shaft.
Now wheelchair bound and unable to use his skillful hands to create his masterpieces, human wax figures, Jarrod had amassed a number of very unscrupulous characters, mostly ex-convicts, to do his work including his #1 assistant the deft mute but immensely strong and built like a world champion body builder Igor played by a then Charles Buchinsky before he changed or Anglicized his name to Charles Bronson. Having his gang of grave robbers raiding the local morgues in the city Jarrod has the stiffs or bodies encased in wax and put on display in his museum. It's pretty Sue Allen, Phillis Kirk, who smells or sees a rat in Jarrod's work when she spots the figure of Joan of Arc at the museum who's an exact or spitting image of her good friend Cathy Gray, Carolyn Jones, who was brutally murdered a few years ago! Not only that Sue's body disappeared from the city morgue before it could be autopsied and buried!
****SPOILERS**** As we already knew Henry Jarrod wasn't the helpless cripple has he lead everyone on to believing. He was one of the grave or morgue robbers who kidnapped bodies that he used in his ghastly work at the wax museum. With Sue, his next potential victim, putting the finger on him Jarrod, was was in the process of turning Sue into a wax dummy of Mary Antoinette, goes completely bonkers which leads to the films, together with Henry Jarrod, final and explosive climax!
P.S It's the movie "House of Wax" that made Vincent Price the horror movie Hollywood legend that he eventually became. Besides a few mostly comedic roles, that he made fun of himself in, Price was almost exclusively cast in horror films and built up over the years a such a large following that even now years after his death he's universally recognized and loved by legions of his admirers. Most of them who weren't even born when he was literally knocking em dead on the silver as well as small,TV,screen.
Now wheelchair bound and unable to use his skillful hands to create his masterpieces, human wax figures, Jarrod had amassed a number of very unscrupulous characters, mostly ex-convicts, to do his work including his #1 assistant the deft mute but immensely strong and built like a world champion body builder Igor played by a then Charles Buchinsky before he changed or Anglicized his name to Charles Bronson. Having his gang of grave robbers raiding the local morgues in the city Jarrod has the stiffs or bodies encased in wax and put on display in his museum. It's pretty Sue Allen, Phillis Kirk, who smells or sees a rat in Jarrod's work when she spots the figure of Joan of Arc at the museum who's an exact or spitting image of her good friend Cathy Gray, Carolyn Jones, who was brutally murdered a few years ago! Not only that Sue's body disappeared from the city morgue before it could be autopsied and buried!
****SPOILERS**** As we already knew Henry Jarrod wasn't the helpless cripple has he lead everyone on to believing. He was one of the grave or morgue robbers who kidnapped bodies that he used in his ghastly work at the wax museum. With Sue, his next potential victim, putting the finger on him Jarrod, was was in the process of turning Sue into a wax dummy of Mary Antoinette, goes completely bonkers which leads to the films, together with Henry Jarrod, final and explosive climax!
P.S It's the movie "House of Wax" that made Vincent Price the horror movie Hollywood legend that he eventually became. Besides a few mostly comedic roles, that he made fun of himself in, Price was almost exclusively cast in horror films and built up over the years a such a large following that even now years after his death he's universally recognized and loved by legions of his admirers. Most of them who weren't even born when he was literally knocking em dead on the silver as well as small,TV,screen.