![]() Then you throw in vets like David Warner, Patrick McNee, J. Check out the victim's list: Zach Galligan (GREMLINS.) Michelle Johnson (BLAME IT ON RIO.) Deborah Foreman (VALLEY GIRL). WAXWORK took a little different approach from the straight-ahead versions, with a cast and a sensibility for horror that still screams "Me Decade" even today. The plot of the old horror classic MYSTERY IN THE WAX MUSEUM was such a tried and true staple, the studios kept falling back on it again and again, finding fresh ways to retell the story. One of Vestron Pictures' first releases was a little number called WAXWORK. Their strategy was simple: make good (if not great) genre pics that would put asses in the seats, that they could then distribute through the video arm later on. So big, in fact, that they started a movie division, Vestron Pictures. Vestron had started out doing some of the first direct-to-video pictures ever made, discovering that the market was HUGE. Every company, great and small, started looking for the next EXORCIST, ALIEN, JAWS.the next big thing that would make millions. The movies that would launch long-term franchises filled the tub. Way back when, THE EXORCIST turned the faucet on. When the major studios discovered back in the late Seventies that indie horror flicks were cheap to make or just buy outright and distribute, they started crankin' 'em out.by the DOZENS. The Eighties.what a great, fertile, inventive time that was for horror. This film would be even better with more blood. I would love for that sequence to be put back together (and a director's commentary never hurts). My only concern is that allegedly the film was cut by the MPAA due to gore in the vampire sequence. Oh, and the professor from "Sliders" is in it, too. ![]() Dana Ashbrook appears before the day of "Twin Peaks". Great comedy, great horror, great 80s film. These things never happened, so how can they have real relics? But you know what? It is so much fun, you just ignore things like this (especially compared to the complete nonsense plot of the sequel or "House II".) Recommended? Heck yeah. Yet, there are sculptures of The Fly, the Invisible Man, and a scene from a zombie film. ![]() ![]() Then there is the bit about the sculptures needing relics from their real-life bodies to become alive. Not only does this make little sense, but there is no reason the man telling the story should know anything about it. I mean, there is a part where the origin of the museum is explained. I could complain about the really odd plot and lack of sense. The midget is cute, one of the kids is just weird and you should hear the way Dracula says "steak tartar" or the scene where the AARP (old people) raid the place. You will get a girl sexually aroused by being flogged (sado-masochism goes hand in hand with horror). You will get spraying blood, mutilated flesh, and a dismembered hand that lives on its own (see "Waxwork II" for more on this and its connection to "Evil Dead II"). This film is brilliant because of the perfect combination of horror and comedy. Well, the museum offers a portal to each of these horrible worlds - but if you die in the portal, you die in real life and become part of the museum. Dracula, the Marquis de Sade, a werewolf, the mummy, and nine other nasties. The film stars the kid from "Gremlins" and his group of friends who encounter the guy from "The Omen", who along with a midget and a Lurch-like butler manage a wax museum full of horrible characters. Going on to make a Warlock movie and a Hellraiser film, he has established himself (though still remains under-appreciated). This movie was his first time as a writer and director and he did it perfectly. "Can't a girl get laid around here without being burned at the stake?" Let me start by saying Anthony Hickox is a brilliant man. In a small suburban town, a group of college students visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre.
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