"House of Wax" has some decent scares and thoroughly gory death scenes. The wax people gimmick is used pretty resourcefully in a couple of scenes. And Cuthbert is good at screaming and looking vulnerable. The fact that "House of Wax" is comes off as decent doesn't say as much for the movie as it does for the sorry state of the overpopulated teen slasher flick genre.However, despite a slow and occasionally annoying first half, House of Wax suddenly explodes with gore and violence at around about the time that the first teen disappears. Sure enough, it isn't long before fingers are being cut off with bolt-cutters, mouths are being super glued together and Achilles tendons are being severed. There's also a terrific scene involving a cinema full of wax dummies watching Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? The film is so gory and violent that it's actually hard to understand how this escaped an 18 certificate. At any rate, House of Wax delivers nicely on the required level of shocks and screams and is definitely worth seeing for its stunning finale. Recommended.
Review of House of Wax
