House of Wax - Page 2

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.

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Article Author: Cara de Pescado

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.

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  • 1 - Chris Beaumont

    May 07, 2005 at 4:42 pm

    "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 - Duane

    May 07, 2005 at 5:59 pm

    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 - -E

    May 07, 2005 at 8:24 pm

    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 - justin

    Oct 03, 2005 at 7:21 pm

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

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