Fresh
Casting is competent, Vincent Price is capital as the No. 1 menace.
Variety Staff, Variety
House of Wax
You've never been scared until you've been scared in 3-D.
1953 · 1h 28m · GP
Crime, Horror
Directed by
André de Toth
Overview
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Director and cast
- André de Toth Director
- Vincent Price as Prof. Henry Jarrod
- Frank Lovejoy as Lt. Tom Brennan
- Phyllis Kirk as Sue Allen
- Carolyn Jones as Cathy Gray
- Paul Picerni as Scott Andrews
- Charles Bronson Cast
- Roy Roberts as Matthew Burke
- Dabbs Greer as Shane
- Angela Clarke as Mrs. Andrews
- Paul Cavanagh as Sidney Wallace
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The effects are done with playfulness, zest, and some imagination (they range from a barker batting paddleballs in your face to a murderer leaping from the row in front of you), making this the most entertaining of the gimmick 3-Ds.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Dimly we foresee movie audiences embalmed in three-dimensional wax and sound.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
De Toth brings off one classic sequence with Kirk fleeing through the gaslit streets pursued by a shadowy figure in a billowing cloak.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
An intermittently gripping shocker.
TIME Magazine
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