HOUSE OF WAX
(Warner Bros.) ‘THE third 3-D film to be released here isn’t much from. the story point of view, but it does contain some interesting visual effects. House of Wax is a remake of an old horror picture called The Mystery of the Wax Museum, in which a sculptor (Vincent Price) is burnt out of his hall of exhibits by a treacherous partner (Frank Lovejoy). He is horribly scarred and crippled in the
fire, and his injuries drive him insane. Thereafter he hobbles around the midnight streets of New York disguised in an opera cloak and murdering pretty young girls whom he covers with molten wax for his new display. The film has a fruity turn-of-the-century — setting, which enables the cameras to feature such shots as an attractive blonde being laced into her corsets, the high-kicking legs of a chorus of can-can dancers, and so forth. These have considerable impact when seen through polaroid spectacles and the medium of the latest Natural Vision 3-D technique (in colour). But despite its flying chairs, axes, bodies and legs, this is in the main a dull show.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 20
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186HOUSE OF WAX New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 20
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