***SPOILERS*** Ridicules remake of the 1953 horror classic "House of Wax" with a deranged Cameron Mitchell, who's seen better day and was in far better movies, as the mad as a hatter wax museum curator Vincent Rinard. Rinard who's face had been disfigured when his boss Paragon Pictures CEO Max Black, Barney Kroeger,spilled a glass of brandy at him while he was lighting up a cigarette. That happened during a fight he had with him over Paragon Pictures' top star Marie Morgan,Anne Helm, over whom of the two suiters, Rinard or Black, she was to marry.
Recovering from his injuries Rinard opens up the famous Hollywood Wax Museum and uses his talents to kidnap and turned into wax like zombies those that he has it in for including his love Marie's former boyfriend actor Tony Dean, Phillip Brird, among others. We also have two bumbling policemen Det. Haskell, Scott Brady, and his partner Sgt. Carver, Johnny Cardos, on the case of the missing actors whom Rinard turned into living and breathing wax figures. Rinard's big plan is to kidnap Max Black and punish him for what he did to him by having him join his victims as members of his wax museum encourager. And he uses the not too bright go-go dancer Thereas, Victoria Carroll,to entice Black to go there and be turned into a ball or man of wax.
***SPOILERS***The movie really goes nowhere with Rinard too crazy to accomplish his devious plans which is to turn all is enemies into wax figures and soon goes completely nuts, if he wasn't already, when the love of his life the beautiful actress Marie Morgan turns him down cold for her true love the waxed and drugged up Tony Dean. It's Tony whom Rinard, in trying to impress her with his skills of waxing people, introduces Marie to in order to get her, in seeing that Tony is no longer able to satisfy her anymore, to fall in love with him. The films final sequence has all of Rinard's immobilized wax zombies suddenly come alive after their shocked back to life during an electoral storm.
The ending is a real letdown in it having really nothing to do with whats been happening during the entire movie but to finally and mercifully put an end to all this insanity. It takes some time to figure out what exactly happened in the films final few minutes which by then you've just about lost all interest in it! The only saving grace in the movie is Cameron Mitchell's acting as the crazed and off the wall wax museum curator Vincent Rinard. It's Mitchell who seemed to have put his entire heart and soul into the part. Mitchell seems so caught up with his role that what would have caused most actors to crack up and break into uncontrolled hysterics he actually takes seriously!
Recovering from his injuries Rinard opens up the famous Hollywood Wax Museum and uses his talents to kidnap and turned into wax like zombies those that he has it in for including his love Marie's former boyfriend actor Tony Dean, Phillip Brird, among others. We also have two bumbling policemen Det. Haskell, Scott Brady, and his partner Sgt. Carver, Johnny Cardos, on the case of the missing actors whom Rinard turned into living and breathing wax figures. Rinard's big plan is to kidnap Max Black and punish him for what he did to him by having him join his victims as members of his wax museum encourager. And he uses the not too bright go-go dancer Thereas, Victoria Carroll,to entice Black to go there and be turned into a ball or man of wax.
***SPOILERS***The movie really goes nowhere with Rinard too crazy to accomplish his devious plans which is to turn all is enemies into wax figures and soon goes completely nuts, if he wasn't already, when the love of his life the beautiful actress Marie Morgan turns him down cold for her true love the waxed and drugged up Tony Dean. It's Tony whom Rinard, in trying to impress her with his skills of waxing people, introduces Marie to in order to get her, in seeing that Tony is no longer able to satisfy her anymore, to fall in love with him. The films final sequence has all of Rinard's immobilized wax zombies suddenly come alive after their shocked back to life during an electoral storm.
The ending is a real letdown in it having really nothing to do with whats been happening during the entire movie but to finally and mercifully put an end to all this insanity. It takes some time to figure out what exactly happened in the films final few minutes which by then you've just about lost all interest in it! The only saving grace in the movie is Cameron Mitchell's acting as the crazed and off the wall wax museum curator Vincent Rinard. It's Mitchell who seemed to have put his entire heart and soul into the part. Mitchell seems so caught up with his role that what would have caused most actors to crack up and break into uncontrolled hysterics he actually takes seriously!