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Mark Mancini <\/strong>and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present 13 Thrilling Facts About The Original House of Wax<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 8. IT COMES WITH AN INTERMISSION.<\/span><\/strong> 9. A FUNCTIONING GUILLOTINE WAS USED IN THE CLIMAX.<\/span><\/strong> Just like his character, Picerni came dangerously close to getting his head chopped off, Louis XVI-style\u2014because this guillotine was 100 percent real. Rather than film the scene in segments, de Toth wanted to shoot the whole thing in one take. With blithe nonchalance, he told Picerni to go and stick his head under the razor-sharp blade of this death device.<\/p>\n Naturally, Picerni objected. At a 2006 House of Wax<\/em> Q&A, the star reminisced at length about the argument that followed. \u201cI asked de Toth, \u2018How are you going to control the blade?\u2019 He said the property master was going to sit on top of the guillotine, holding the blade between his legs, then let it drop after my head was removed.\u201d When the actor opined that this sounded dangerous, de Toth replied, \u201cWhat are you, chicken sh*t?\u201d In the end, Picerni agreed to do the scene in one take, on the condition that a metal bar be inserted under the blade to keep it from falling prematurely.<\/p>\n 11. BELA LUGOSI ATTENDED THE PREMIERE\u2014ALONG WITH A GUY IN A GORILLA SUIT.<\/span><\/strong> Mark Mancini and Mental_Floss present 13 Thrilling Facts About The Original House of Wax. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15687,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrior to the late 1970s, \u201cepic\u201d films would often treat their viewers to a built-in bathroom break. Midway through screenings of Gone With the Wind<\/em> and other, extra-long classics, the action would pause, the theater lights would brighten, and the word \u201cIntermission\u201d would appear onscreen. Ordinarily, this practice was reserved for movies with bladder-testing runtimes of two and a half hours or more. By comparison,\u00a0House of Wax<\/em> flies by with its breezy 88-minute runtime. Yet, unconventionally for a short picture, it<\/i> contains an intermission. Why? Screening the 3D film required two projectors running simultaneously. The respite was necessary because it allowed theater employees to change both reels an hour into the movie.<\/p>\n
\nToward the end of the film, Igor gets into a big fight with Sue\u2019s boyfriend, Scott, played by Paul Picerni. From the get-go, there\u2019s no doubt about which one has the upper hand, as Igor seizes poor Scott and shoves his head under a guillotine in the museum\u2019s French Revolution display. Luckily, the police arrive in time to rescue our hero, pulling him out of harm\u2019s way seconds before the blade comes crashing down.<\/p>\n
\nAlthough the star of Universal\u2019s Dracula <\/em>(1931) did not appear in House of Wax<\/em>, he did help\u00a0promote it. The film\u2019s world premiere was held at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles on April 16, 1953. As a publicity stunt, Lugosi was invited to attend the big event. Clad in a vampire cape, he emerged from his limousine with a chain link leash, which was attached to an actor in an ape costume\u2014a clear homage to the 1952 comedy Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"