REVIEW

House of Wax

Written by Cara de Pescado
Published May 07, 2005

I admit, the only reason I saw this movie tonight is that the theater was showing Paris Hilton's sex tape instead of previews. That and I find Chad Michael Murray to be incredibly sexy. And lucky for me there is a scene where he is sans shirt. *swoon*

I wasn't expecting much as most "horror" films are anything but scary. I usually find myself laughing instead of jumping. So I was pleasantly surprised. Well I don't know if pleasant is the right word.

It opens with a bunch of kids ready to go to some big football game. And it isn't a very promising opening to a film. Actually it was quite lame. And on the way to the football game, the group of 6 friends stop to camp overnight.

Why anyone would ever think camping on the side of some creepy road is a good idea is beyond me. But that was their first mistake. And of course some creepy truck shows up and leaves. And one chick "hears" someone creeping around the campsite in the middle of the night.

The next mistake is when that same girl, Carly, decides to go find out what causes some stinky stinky smell the wind blows their way. And since that wasn't a good idea to begin with, she finds some nasty nasty heap of road kill. But luckily they find a guy dumping a deer and some chickens that happens to have a truck. And since they need a new fan belt, their luck seems to be getting better, right? HA! Don't get in a car with creepy road kill man.

So that leads us to where the movie really gets started. And it gets really freaky when you first see the large scary scissors coming out of the floor. I knew what was coming. And cutting one's achilles tendon has always been a fear of mine.

The actual wax part wasn't all that scary. In fact it was no big deal. But the movie is a lot scarier and gross than I was expecting. My friend had a bot fly taken out of his head today, and this movie was grosser than that. By a long shot.

But once you figure out who is going to live and everyone else is dead- it just moves to being kinda cheesy. OK, really cheesy. But hey, it is fun to watch a bunch of wax melting off dead people.

Paris Hilton's performance....well she is a terrible actress. We all know that. But she comes to a pretty gruesome fate. The theater applauded at her demise.

As all horror movies these days it was pretty damn predictable. But still had those moments where anticipation was getting to you. And after some of the creepy things happened, it made the cheesy stuff scarier. Mostly because you didn't know if something scary was going to happen again.

So it was better than expected. Scary and gross too.

But then I was spray painting all day, so it could have been the fumes.

In real life she's Erin McMaster, but Cara de Pescado is one of the fortunate ones to be considered a Masked Movie Snob. She puts her fins to work and writes Reviews From A Fishbowl.
House of Wax
Published: May 07, 2005
Type: Review
Section: Video
Filed Under: Video: Horror, Video: Suspense and Mystery, Video: Thriller
Writer: Cara de Pescado
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#1 — May 7, 2005 @ 16:42PM — Chris Beaumont [URL]

"But then I was spray painting all day, so it could have been the fumes."

LOL. At least you got something out of it, I enjoyed the film to an extent. You can see my review here

#2 — May 7, 2005 @ 17:59PM — Duane

I believe that this is the first time I've seen a reference in a move review to the surgical extraction of a bot fly. Nice touch!

#3 — May 7, 2005 @ 20:24PM — -E [URL]

I try to reference odd things in my reviews I guess :)

The movie was enjoyable. Zero in the way of character depth, and no development at all. The one non-white person was Paris's black boyfriend. Two dimensional. The two dimensions? Football and sex.

#4 — October 3, 2005 @ 19:21PM — justin

yo do you know the song that they sing?? when the paris and that other guy die??

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