House of Wax [3D Blu-ray]

HOUSE OF WAX 3D [1953] [3D Blu-ray + Blu-ray] The Silver Screen’s First Major Studio 3D Movie on 3D Blu-Ray For The First Time! The Ultimate Dimension in TERROR!Warner Bros. proudly presents the most successful 3D movie of the 1950s and now, for the first time in 3D Blu-ray! Screen legend Vincent price stars as Henry Jarrod, an intense master sculptor who thinks of his wax creations as his “children.” Terribly disfigured in a fire started by his greedy business partner Matthew Burke [Roy Roberts], Henry Jarrod schemes to rebuild the museum as a macabre chamber of horrors, filled with lurid figures that eerily resemble those of murder victims, stolen from the local morgue. This horror classic comes complete with bonus features and including how director André de Toth was able to produce this brilliant 3D masterpiece, with just one eye and no depth of perception. Presented in both 3D and 2D versions.FILM FACT: To accompany its Stereoscopic 3D imagery, the ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ was originally available with a stereophonic three-track magnetic soundtrack, although many theatres were not equipped to make use of it and defaulted to the standard monophonic optical soundtrack. Previously, films with stereo sound were only produced to be shown in specialty cinemas, such as the Toldi in Budapest and the Telecinema in London. Apparently, only the monophonic soundtrack and a separate sound-effects-only track have survived. As of 2013, no copy of the original three-channel stereo soundtrack is known to exist. A new stereo soundtrack has recently been synthesised from the available source material. The film also included an intermission, which was necessary to change the film's reels, because each projector of the theatre’s two projectors was dedicated to one of the stereoscopic images.Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Dabbs Greer, Charles Bronson, Reggie Rymal, Oliver Blake (uncredited), Joanne Brown (uncredited), Leo Curley (uncredited), Frank Ferguson (uncredited), Darwin Greenfield (uncredited), Mary Lou Holloway (uncredited), Jack Kenney (uncredited), Mike Lally (uncredited), Lyle Latell (uncredited), Richard Lightner (uncredited), Philo McCullough (uncredited), Terry Mitchell (uncredited), Jack Mower (uncredited), Eddie Parks (uncredited), Grandon Rhodes (uncredited), Riza Royce (uncredited), Larri Thomas (uncredited), Philip Tonge (uncredited), Merry Townsend (uncredited), Ruth Warren (uncredited), Ruth Whitney (uncredited), Shirley Whitney (uncredited), Jack Wise (uncredited), Jack Woody (uncredited), Trude Wyler (uncredited) and Nedrick Young (uncredited)Director: André de TothProducers: Bryan Foy and Joe Dreier (uncredited)Screenplay: Crane Wilbur (screenplay) and Charles Belden (story)Composer: David ButtolphCinematography: Bert Glennon, J. Peverell Marley, Lothrop B. Worth and Robert Burks (uncredited)Video Resolution: 1080p [Stereoscopic 3D]Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1Audio: English: 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio, French: 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono, German: 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono, Italian: 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono and Spanish: 1.0 Dolby Digital MonoSubtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German and ItalianRunning Time: 88 minutesRegion: All RegionsNumber of discs: 1Studio: Warner Home VideoAndrew’s Blu-ray Review: With the sci-fi horror classic 'THE FLY' already available on Blu-ray and a great collection of other Vincent Price films arriving just in time for the best time of the year, it pretty much goes without saying that I'm as giddy as a schoolboy this Halloween season. Needless to say, I'm a devoted Price fan, as his horror features have occupied the nightmares and wild imaginations of this reviewer's childhood. But even for those who have never seen one his movies, he remains a familiar and beloved cultural icon whose face and voice is commonly associated with the genre. And it's for good reason; he is "The Master of Menace" with a throng of films that have influenced countless around the world through the generations.Of course, Vincent Price did not become an overnight success right away, which is true of almost all actors. He started his career in the late 30s and 40s as a character actor, making appearances in 'LAURA,' 'The Invisible Man Returns' and film-noir classics 'THE WEB' and 'THE BRIBE,' along with various others. Although it's not his first time in a horror film, that honour belongs more or less to Rowland V. Lee's 'Tower of London' with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone, Price's breakout performance, considered as the move that initiated a successful and lasting career in the genre, is ‘HOUSE OF WAX.’ It is a deliciously wicked and twisted tale about a highly talented wax sculptor with a disturbing secret hidden within his exhibits of the macabre and historical murder scenes.Officially, it's a remake of Michael Curtiz's 1933 mystery thriller 'Mystery of the Wax Museum,' but Hungarian-born filmmaker André de Toth and screenwriter Crane Wilbur of the films 'THE BAT' and 'Mysterious Island,' place more emphasis on the story's horror elements. And why shouldn't they. The plot involves a monstrous-looking weirdo dressed in black stealing the corpses of murder victims from the city morgue. What's done with the bodies doesn't come as much of a surprise, especially after an action-packed opening where Professor Henry Jarrod's [Vincent Price] wax museum burns to the ground, but that doesn't stop the filmmakers from keeping those details a secret until the final moments. Other than Vincent Price's elegant, gentleman-like performance, the horribly disfigured man is the film's highlight as he creeps in the ominously dark shadows and the dimly-lit streets of New York like a crazed, menacing ghoul.Much of the story follows the naturally inquisitive but unemployed Sue Allen [Phyllis Kirk]. She's the only person to see the deformed weirdo and who grows increasingly suspicious of the Joan of Arc wax figure in Prof. Jarod's new museum because it's a creepy likeness of her dead friend Cathy Gray [Carolyn Jones]. Her incessant curiosity eventually draws the attention of two police detectives [Frank Lovejoy and Dabbs Greer], who also suspect something odd after discovering Jarod's assistant Leon Averill [Nedrick Young] is a recently-released convict. A very young but intimidatingly brawny Charles Bronson also shows up as the Professor's other assistant, the deaf and mute Igor, who like the scary man in black, plays his role with a frightful eeriness and a foreboding presence.And if that was not enough to satisfy horror audiences, the filmmakers also decided to take advantage of the latest in projection technology. This was the period when theatre attendance was dropping while the popularity of television was steadily growing, so studios were taking steps to remain competitive and attract moviegoers back. Although not the first 3D film to be released theatrically, ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ was the first full-length feature from a major Hollywood studio, along with Lew Lander's film noir 'Man in the Dark.' It used what at the time was seen as revolutionary in the polarized 3D process, and André de Toth did a magnificent job of utilising the "stereo window" effect to immerse his audience while also including a few comical gimmick shots, like the famous paddleball sequence immediately following the intermission. The 3D surprisingly complements the film and adds another engaging layer of enjoyment.Blu-ray Video Quality – ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ was filmed in the two-strip 35mm stereoscopic format that required two separate prints be projected through two interlocked projectors. Audiences would then enjoy this polarized 3D image while wearing grey-lensed polarized glasses, not unlike the 3D glasses we still use today when watching a modern 3D film. This intricate and rather cumbersome process, which required an intermission halfway into the runtime so that a projectionist could change reels, was created by M. L. Gunzberg with others and was revolutionary for the period. Dubbed "Natural Vision 3D," many 3D films in the early 1950s heyday of 3D mania were shot in this format, and while André de Toth's horror classic may not have been the first to utilise it, it is one of the best examples of the process. With that, I'm happy to report that the film shocks and amazes on Blu-ray 3D with a simply fantastic 1080p encode image, marking the very first time the movie has ever been made available in 3D on the Blu-ray home video format. Parallax, at first, may seem a bit exaggerated, but thankfully, it's not straining on the eyes and even more surprisingly feels natural. Presented in its original Academy aspect ratio of 1.37:1, the rest of the picture displays a myriad of vibrant, animated colours which only complement the 3D image further. Luxurious, richly-saturated primaries practically bleed with enthusiasm while softer pastel hues pulsate with warmth and energy. Blacks are true and accurate, showing terrific gradational details in the shadows and adding to the video amazing layered effect. Contrast is comfortably bright with crisp whites, allowing for excellent visibility and clarity of background information. Definition and resolution are highly-detailed for the most part, but a few moments are poorer and blurrier than others, which has more to do with the filmmaking process of the period than a fault in the encoding. Some mild ringing around various objects in many scenes is also a result of this, and I detected a bit of ghosting here and there, which I suspect will be more of an issue on some displays than on others. In the end, however, this is a fantastic high-definition presentation of a great 3D horror classic.Blu-ray Audio Quality – Along with being a revolutionary 3D film, André de Toth's beloved classic was also a ground-breaking feature in the sound department. 'House of Wax' was one of the first films to introduce stereophonic sound which required two 35mm fully-coated magnetic prints containing audio for separate Left-Centre-Right channels. It was another complicated process, which the studio company conveniently dubbed "WarnerPhonic," but more accurately and better produced an engaging stereo soundstage and wonderfully complemented the 3D image. Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time, this 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio stereo soundtrack accurately reflects and faithfully reproduces the original design to great effect. Although the majority of the action feels as if coming through the centre of the screen, activity does bleed into the other two channels, subtly widening the image with mild atmospherics. The crackling of flames at the beginning, for example, spread across the entire screen, and David Buttolph's score fills the soundstage with great clarity in the orchestration. The low-end understandably doesn't dig very deep, but there's plenty of bass and weight to appreciate in a 60-year-old film. Dialogue is very well-prioritised and intelligible. A drawback in this magnetic sound process is a limited dynamic range, and sadly, it does show here, as the few moments of higher frequencies clip slightly and come off a tad too bright. All things considered, however, this is an outstanding and highly-engaging lossless mix for ‘HOUSE OF WAX.'Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:Audio Commentary: Commentary by David Del Valle Constantine Nasr: Film historians David Del Valle and Constantine Nasr join forces in providing a wealth of insight, background information, and amusing analysis. The participants take a very academic and scene-specific approach to the discussion, but their comments on the cast, the director, the production and the 3D technology of the time makes for a good and informative listen. The two film historians cover just about everything the running time allows them. This is a very thorough commentary that fans of the ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ 3D will want to listen to immediately after a viewing of the feature film.Special Feature: HOUSE OF WAX: Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before! [48:00] This is a special documentary piece on the history behind the 3D film and its cast, with contributions from current filmmakers including Rick Baker, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, Sam Irvin, Eric Kurland, Martin Scorsese and Victoria Price [Vincent Price's daughter]. The film's story is discussed as well as the 3D phenomenon it created which begs the question- why wasn't this extra shot in 3D? It certainly would have been a nice touch. House of Wax's original theatrical trailer is also included, which is mainly comprised of title cards promoting "The real, the true MIRACLE of Third Dimension" as "like NOTHING that has ever happened to you before!" There's also some newsreel footage of the premiere, which in larger cities consisted of showings beginning at midnight and continuing throughout the following day. It's a great short documentary for fans. Directed by Constantine Nasr. Screenplay by Constantine Nasr. Produced by Constantine Nasr and Emily Moore.Special Feature: Newsreel [2:14] Here we get to see is a black-and-white newsreel footage (sometimes silent and has the occasional music interlude) entitled "Round-the-Clock Premiere: Coast Hails ‘HOUSE OF WAX’. This is film of patrons outside the Paramount theater for a midnight premiere of ‘HOUSE OF WAX.’ You will see Bela Lugosi (in Dracula garb) with a guy in a gorilla suit, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Danny Thomas, Shelley Winters and others at the film's star-studded theatrical premiere.Special Feature: 1933 Warner Bros. Feature: Mystery of The House of Wax Museum [77:00] This is the original directed Michael Curtiz mystery thriller film on which the Vincent Price ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ classic is based upon. Starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz and Monica Bannister. ‘Mystery of the Wax Museum’ is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery-horror film released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor. This film is notable as the last dramatic fiction film made, along with Warner's Doctor X, in the two-color Technicolor process. While it's much appreciated to have this on the same disc, it also seemed like a missed opportunity to offer it in high-definition video. Produced by Henry Blanke (uncredited) and Written by Carl Erickson, Don Mullaly and Charles S. Belden (story).Theatrical Trailer [1953] [2:00] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the ‘HOUSE OF WAX.’ which is more like a "teaser" and not showing any actual scenes from the 3D film.Finally, to have the ‘HOUSE OF WAX’ finally released onto a 3D Blu-Ray is truly something to be celebrated, and is a must-have for anyone with a home 3D system. The younger folks who might think 3D began with ‘AVATAR’ will certainly be in for a surprise, and will remind everyone else how 3D can greatly enhance a movie when it's done right. Thus so far only ‘Dial M For Murder’ and ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ [initially released with the Universal Classic Monsters Collection and recently made available separately as well] are the only other 3D movies of that era to be released on 3D Blu-Ray hopefully we'll see many more come out in the near future. The 'House of Wax,' a remake of Michael Curtiz's 1933 mystery thriller, is a deliciously wicked and twisted horror classic about a deadly secret hidden inside the wax figures of a "Chamber of Horrors" exhibit. Not only is it a well-made and beautifully filmed spook-fest, but it made cinema history as the film that gave Vincent Price his breakout role and was one of the first full-length 3D features released by a major Hollywood studio. The 3D Blu-ray arrives with an excellent video presentation full of depth and dimensionality and accompanied by a great lossless audio mix. With a couple exclusive bonuses to boot, the overall package makes a wonderful addition to any horror and 3D film collection. That is why I was so excited to purchase this amazing 3D Blu-ray and to finally view the amazing 3D, was a sight to behold and Warner Bros. have done a totally professional job and it looks even more superior than when it was originally released in the cinema, as you had to wear those terrible anaglyptic 3D glasses, as the 3D was very poor and that is why it went out of fashion. Now you can see it in its full glorious 3D as it should be seen and it has gone in proud of place of my ever increasing Vincent Price Blu-ray Collection and a definite must have purchase. What is also another great bonus is the beautiful designed 3D slip cover, that gives you a fantastic 3D effect and it is an even a greater excuse to purchase this awesome 3D Blu-ray. Highly Recommended!Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film AficionadoLe Cinema ParadisoUnited Kingdom

I was one of the first people standing in line to see The House of Wax when it opened in Houston Texas back in 1953. I was only eleven years old in 1953, but the film made such a powerful impression on me that I still remember it like it was yesterday. I saw it at a first-run downtown theater in dual-projection through polarized glasses and the theater was equipped with the new Warnerphonic stereo surround sound. When a mace from a suit of armor was thrown at Vincent Price in the beginning of the film, he ducked, and the mace seemed to fly out over the audience and I heard the mace hit the floor behind me. I looked around and saw that speakers had not only been installed on the sides of the theater for this film, but also on the wall in the back of the theater. I remember thinking how cool it was that not only was the picture in 3-D, but so was the sound. Flaming heads fall into your lap, can-can girls kick you in the nose, the House of Wax has something for everyone.After I saw House of Wax in 1953, I was sold on 3-D and I saw almost every 3-D movie made in the fifties, as well as nearly every 3-D film that has been made since the fifties, including nearly all the 3-D movies that are made today. I even bought a Stereo Realist camera in 1954 so I could take my own 3-D pictures. When 3-D TV came out and 3-D Blu-ray players became available, I was an enthusiastic early adopter of the new technology. 1953 was the last time I saw The House of Wax in 3-D in a theater, so I was one of the first people to get on the waiting list when I learned that Warner's was going to bring out a Blu-ray 3-D disk of House of Wax. I already had the Warner's 3-D Blu-ray disk of Dial M for Murder and I could hardly wait for Warner's to release House of Wax. I waited for months and the disk finally arrived from Amazon last week. I was not disappointed, the disk was worth the long wait.Warner's has done a remarkable job of restoration on this great classic 3-D film. It's a perfect copy with no bad sections, no missing scenes, and no faded color. The overall quality is as good as I remember it from the fifties, and the 3-D is absolutely spectacular. The 3-D in House of Wax is as good as the 3-D in the best 3-D movies made today and better than the 3-D in many films made today. The Natural Vision 3-D camera had the ability to show the full roundness in the faces of people when photographed close-up and that seems to be missing in 3-D films made today. Great care went into arranging every scene in the film to accentuate depth perception. Of course, there is the famous paddle ball scene, which is still the best 3-D gimmick I've ever seen, but this film is not just one 3-D gimmick after another. The story, the acting, the careful attention to background and detail make this more than one of the first 3-D films, this film is a true classic in every way. Ironically, it was directed by a man with only one eye who could not see 3-D, but he understood the principle involved.In addition to House of Wax, the disk also contains The Mystery of the Wax Museum, which is an older Warner Brothers film on which House of Wax was based. The Mystery of the Wax Museum is worth seeing for it's own merit. It was also a technically innovative film when it was made, because it was filmed in two-strip Technicolor. I've seen many two-strip Technicolor films and the color in this film from 1933 is outstanding. This bonus film has also been very well preserved and restored. The only early two-strip Technicolor film I've seen with better color than Mystery of the Wax museum is Whoopee made in 1930. There are other special features of interest on the disk and the commentary is worth running House of Wax a second time with the commentary turned on. I didn't think there was anything I didn't know about the early days of 3-D, but I learned a number of interesting things about Milton Gunzburg who, along with his brother, developed the Natural Vision camera used to film House of Wax.As much as I love the Warner's restoration, I have one minor complaint about the picture quality. The 3-D is ghost free, but the image looks slightly grainy on my sixty inch plasma TV at close distances. I also noticed the grain in the Warner's restoration of Dial M for Murder, but ironically I didn't notice the grain on the older 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum which was filmed in two-strip Technicolor and printed with the dye-transfer process. I don't believe the problem has anything to do with the restorations, I have a theory about the grain which has to do with the original camera film. Although Warnercolor used Eastman color film exclusively for prints (including the prints of House of Wax), I believe the Gunzburgs used Ansco monopack color film in the Natural Vision camera to photograph The House of Wax. This is the same film they selected to use in the Natural Vision camera a few months earlier when they filmed Bwana Devil. The Ansco monopack produced excellent color fidelity, but early Ansco color monopack had more noticeable grain than the Eastman color momopack used to photograph later Warnercolor features. This is only a theory based on the graininess of the picture and I don't have any facts to back it up. Please note that the grain I'm talking about is only noticeable when the Blu-ray disk is viewed on a large screen HDTV at close distances. It probably wouldn't be possible to see the grain on a screen smaller than fifty inches, or on a NTSC DVD copy of the film (due to the lower video resolution of NTSC video).Warner's could have removed the grain digitally during restoration. However, that would have resulted in slightly lower resolution and it may have upset the purists who want the picture to look exactly as it did on the motion picture screen. In any case, the restoration job is outstanding and I may be nit-picking by expecting the picture to look better than it did when it was originally projected. The restoration people did take some liberties with the sound track to make it sound more like the original stereo sound heard in theaters. The original Warnerphonic stereo sound was recorded on synchronized magnetic tape, but unfortunately the magnetic tapes have been lost over the decades leaving only the monophonic optical soundtrack. I think Warner's did a good job of creating fake stereo sound for this disk to simulate what people heard in theaters equipped with Warnerphonic sound. The background music holds up remarkably well and still sounds creepy today.Thanks to feedback from people on this forum, I've learned that the new 3-D Blu-ray disk does not play properly on some (possibly all) non-3D Blu-ray disk players even though the disk contains both a 3-D and 2-D version of the film. So, if you do not have a 3-D Blu-ray player and a matching 3-D HDTV, then you would be better off buying the non-3D Blu-ray disk. But, this should not discourage those folks who do have a 3-D Blu-ray player and a properly configured 3-D HDTV from buying this wonderful 3-D version of the classic 3-D film.

My husband and I loved it, it’s a classic. IT’s recommended for sure.If you like classic movies watch this classic of all times.

Three movies for the price of one!I bought this as it's the only current release of the 1953 version of the movie I could find. but it was pretty cheap. Getting the 2005 remake was a bonus, but thats actually a really good film as well. They don't bear any resemblance to each other plot wise apart from being broadly about a wax museum . The new version is gory and spectacular. Great effects. Don't worry about Paris Hilton being in it, she is fine. The set up for this movie includes a whole town of mysteries as well as just the museum, and the wax statue effects are great, really creepy.The 1953 version is far more restrained. Vincent Price plays a wax museum owner who loses his sculpting skill in a fire but thinks up another way to make wax statue . There's no scenes of real horror apart from some great shots of wax dummies on fire (always a winner), and eager performances from all involved. The film does suffer from tiresome inserts made for the 3D release, especially the bat-and-ball man, which most viewers will find irritating. Close up shots of can-can dancers with their skirts up kicking their legs might be more well received! The acting is pretty good. Vincent Price fans get treated to a good performance here, and Phyllis Kirk makes a good heroine.Surprisingly there is also a THIRD movie in this set, tucked away as an extra on the 1953 disc, it's the 1933 "Mystery of the Wax Museum" with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray. `The 1953 "House of Wax' is an almost exact remake of this, so watching them both may result in a Groundhog Day-like experience. The older movie suffers from very faded colour, along with too many scenes where the wax statues are actually live people trying to stand still. The acting is pretty hammy in places, and there appears to be no musical score, so a lot of the time the film is lacking in the dramatic accenting that music would provide - especially at the climax. But it's the same plot as the 1953 film so take your pick.This is a treat for movie fans to experience Wax Museum Terror from three very different eras of cinema. All three movies have something to offer.

The House of Wax seems to have a history in my family. My late mother saw it as a young woman in Fiji in 3D and I saw it many years later in 3D at the BFI Southbank in London. I now have my own DVD copy at long last.It was re-made in 2005 but it is incomparable to this 1953 classic directed by Andre de Toth starring the grandmaster of horror, Vincent Price. The House of Wax 1953 is a re-make of the 1933 film, The Mystery of the Wax Museum and stars the legendary grandmaster of horror, Vincent Price in one of his iconic horror roles as Professor Henry Jarrod.Professor Henry Jarrod (Price) is distraught, depressed, saddened and horrifically facially disfigured after an arsonist destroys his beloved House of Wax Museum. He emerges with a vengeance opening a spectacular and magnificent new House of Wax Museum that becomes the talk of the town. However, the new wax figures are real life corpses .........Vincent Price is excellent as the evil, Professor Henry Jarrod. There is a screen appearance from Charles Bronson as Jarrod's assistant and partner in crime. Wax historical figures, boiling hot vats of wax, disappearing corpses, disfigured people, mayhem and murder. This is vintage Vincent Price.A true horror film classic.See it at your peril ...........

Henry Jarrod is a very talented sculptor of wax figures for a museum. But as the museum starts to flounder, Jarrod's partner, Matthew Burke, insists on taking a new direction, a row ensues and Jarrod is knocked unconscious. Burke seizes the opportunity to torch the museum and get the insurance money, with Jarrod still in the premises. Thought long since dead, Jarrod resurfaces, apparently wheel chair bound and with horribly burned hands. Opening up a new museum, his new figures {made by his protégé under his instruction} look ever more lifelike than before, could he be responsible for some despicable crimes in the area?.This marvellous film is a remake of the 1933 chiller, The Mystery Of The Wax Museum, directed by Michael Curtiz. Here this film is taken on by Andre de Toth, originally filmed in 3-D with the then bonus addition of Warner Phonic Sound, it's a picture that thankfully holds up real well even in its basic flat format. The reason it does hold up well is because director de Toth didn't get carried away with the gimmick, it's used sparingly so the narrative never gets lost amongst any trickery, and thus House Of Wax's excellently creepy story comes to the fore.Having the ever supreme Vincent Price as your leading man {Jarrod} will always help your horror genre picture, here he two folds the performance brilliantly. At first his Jarrod is charming and carrying a grace about his dedication to his craft, but then, devilment takes control as Price pumps creepy ardour into Jarrod's fractured mind. Quite a turn from Price who most definitely suffered for his art during the shoot, forced to do his own stunts {the 3D process needs more than one camera}, he was involved in an accident that set him on fire and almost saw him crushed!. Then there was the long and often painful make up sessions to get the desired effects of a burns victim, layers of rubber strangling his skin to the point of passing out, oh yes Vincent earned his money on this one!.We even get one of the earliest credited performances from Charles Bronson {here under his real name of Buchinsky} as Jarrod's assistant Igor, whilst fans of The Addams Family TV series will no doubt enjoy the performance of future Mortica, Carolyn Jones. The film was a big success on its release, and hugely popular with critics, and it's not hard to see why, because today it still stands proud as one of the finest exponents of classic horror, both as a story and as a technical construction. 9/10

You get 2 films here. Now I am going to give you a warning, the original is much better than the new version. I found the newer version terrible. To be honest I found it was no where near as good as the original and the best with Vincent Price. Paris Hilton is to say the least rubbish in the newer version. The kids want to muck about and sex seems to be all they want to get up to. Lots of blood and gore. But don't take my word for it, buy and watch the original first. Then watch the newer version. PC. 15. 12. 2017.

Having watched Sir Graves Ghastly in Detroit Michigan in the 60's and 70's I became enchanted with Horrors on Saturday afternoons!!! Vincent Price was a regular Star in these Horror Movie Classics and recently I researched Mr. Price!!! I found that The House Of Wax was the pivotal start of him into the Horror genera!!! So you see, I had, to own this Vincent Price Classic!!! At my first attempt at obtaining the DVD, Amazon said that this title was unknown but only three days after this I got a post on Facebook about Mr. Price, With a dialogue from the ghouls and goblins who said it was available at Amazon which I quickly ordered!!! The two movie themes do not run congruent with the same theme, although, in a few ways it does. Such as enclosing humans in wax and the Madness theme!!! Overall I'd say that this is a must buy for Us Horror Classic fans out there!!! Shame to the telly stations that don't play the Horror Genera any more!!! Perhaps they believe that Madness has been cured!!!