{"id":29704,"date":"2022-05-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29704"},"modified":"2022-05-14T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T04:12:50","slug":"house-of-wax-1953-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29704","title":{"rendered":"House of Wax (1953) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z052122zview_houseofwax53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>House of Wax <\/strong><\/em>(1953)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Andr\u00e9 De Toth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Crane Wilbur<\/strong> based on <em>The Wax Works<\/em> by <strong>Charles S. Belden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Roy Roberts <\/strong>and <strong>Charles Bronson<\/strong> (as <strong>Charles Buchinsky<\/strong>)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU&#8217;VE SEEN BEFORE! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henry Jarrod (Price) is a skilled sculptor who creates life-like wax figures of famous people from history.\u00a0 Jarrod&#8217;s business partner, Matthew Burke (Roberts) feels their wax museum would do better business if Jarrod sculpted scenes of murderers and their victims.\u00a0 Jarrod refuses. So for the insurance, Burke sets the museum on fire.\u00a0 He douses Jarrod with kerosene and leaves him to burn alive!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Months later a horribly disfigured man murders Burke.\u00a0 Coincidently (?), Henry Jarrod reappears.\u00a0 Although the fire didn&#8217;t disfigure his face or kill him, Jarrod is confined to a wheelchair.\u00a0 His burned hands are no longer useful.\u00a0 \u00a0Jarrod plans to create a new wax museum with the help of his assistant, Igor (Bronson) and some of his art students.\u00a0 When Burke&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 is murdered by a disfigured man, the police begin looking for a serial killer.\u00a0 And isn&#8217;t it strange that Jarrod&#8217;s new figures look amazingly like women who have recently been killed?<\/p>\n<p>The disfigured man has his sights on more victims&#8230; will the police discover his identity in time to stop him?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>House of Wax<\/em> was originally presented in 3D, so there are some scenes specifically to take advantage of the process.\u00a0 This is one of Vincent Price&#8217;s most famous roles and rightly so.\u00a0 Carolyn Jones is a standout in one of her earliest roles.\u00a0 Charles Bronson is effective as Igor, Price&#8217;s deaf\/mute assistant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>House of Wax<\/em> is a reworking of 1933&#8217;s <em>Mystery at the Wax Museum<\/em> (which is also worth a watch).\u00a0 Interestingly enough, the success of the 1953 film, gave Warner Bros. the idea to create a weekly television series involving bizarre murders solved by a trio of amateur detectives who own a wax museum.\u00a0 A pilot was filmed, but rejected as too intense for television.\u00a0 The pilot was then expanded into a full length feature, titled <em>Chamber of Horrors<\/em> and released to theaters!<\/p>\n<p><em>House of Wax<\/em> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z052122zview_houseofwax53b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Wax (1953) Director:\u00a0 Andr\u00e9 De Toth Screenplay: \u00a0Crane Wilbur based on The Wax Works by Charles S. 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