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House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth and released by Warner Bros. A remake of the studio's own 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. The film premiered in New York on April 10, 1953 and had a ...
House of Wax: Directed by André De Toth. With Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones. An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Jan 1, 2024 · Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own.
A museum fire turns a handsome man into a human monster who steals the bodies of his victims from the morgue to create life-like wax images. Master of horror...
Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously ...
House of Wax, American horror film, released in 1953, that established Vincent Price as a leading actor in the genre.It was one of the first films shot in 3-D.. Price portrayed Prof. Henry Jarrod, an ingenious sculptor of wax statues and part owner of a wax museum that is burned down by his business partner in an attempt to collect insurance money. . Soon thereafter, the partner and his ...
Andre de Toth's classic 3-D thriller House of Wax (1953, as Vincent Price's mute assistant, Igor); and De Toth's fine low-budget noir Crime Wave (1954). Despite his formidable presence, his leads were confined to a string of B pictures like Gene Fowler's Gang War; and Roger Corman's tight Machine Gun Kelly (both 1958).
Apr 10, 2023 · After a slow start to the 1950s, horror roared back to life with its first 3D classic, starring the great Vincent Price: House of Wax. After a slow start to the 1950s, ...
We enter the Wax Museum with various tableaux of crimes of the past, and then enter the workshop where Prof. Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is working on a sculpture. His business partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) enters and walks partially upstairs when he is hailed by Jarrod.
Apr 25, 2017 · Warners box-office hit House of Wax was released in the US on 25 April 1953 and provided Vincent Price with a springboard to horror fame, thanks to his nuanced performance as Henry Jarrod, a sculptor who gives into the public’s appetite for shock and sensationalism following a fire that leaves him horribly disfigured. No longer able to create wax figures with his own hands, Jarrod resorts to ...
