They make the unfortunate decision to take a shortcut to save time and get lost due to a diversion. Carly, her boyfriend Wade, her brother Nick, and their friends Dalton, Blake, and Paige are traveling across the country for a college football game. Rather than a lush, world-famous wax museum in the middle of a bustling city, we’re out where so many horror movies start – the middle of nowhere. The most obvious change to the remake of House of Wax is the location, making it quite clear that we’re dealing with a very different story in this version. In fact, there are so many similarities between the two movies I refuse to believe it wasn’t intentional!
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However, fear not remake fans, because House of Wax actually works much better as a remake to the ’70s te lekinetic horror movie Tourist Trap (1979).
The central themes, the wax museum’s role, and the motive of the killers are all very different. I’m not going to lie to you House of Wax and its predecessors do have very little in common with each other, aside from involving a wax museum and murderous wax artist. Seemingly a remake in name and nothing else, the 2005 version of House of Wax was accused of being nothing more than a cash-in attempt – another excuse to draw fans of classic horror movies into the cinema and collect their ticket money. However, one problem which came up a lot was the lack of connection to the original House of Wax (1953), which itself was a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933).
A lot of people had issues with House of Wax, most of which seemed to be unfairly directed at Paris Hilton ( Repo! The Genetic Opera, 2008 ) for merely appearing in the film. When House of Wax (2005) hit our cinema screens, it came up against a lot of criticism, even though it has firmly been one of my favorite slasher movies ever since.
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