![]() ![]() In the original film version, made in 1933, Fay Wray plays a beautiful, but uninteresting damsel in distress. One of his intern sculptors dates a model, Sue (Phyllis Kirk) who is hounded by a mysterious man with a distorted face. ![]() 12 years later, Jerrod opens a new museum. Here Vincent Price plays Henry Jerrod, a wax sculptor whose first try at a wax museum meets the same infernal end as Atwill's museum in the first film. Crane Wilbur's screenplay has well researched details (regarding how wax sculpting works, the effects of chemical burns for example) improves on the 1933 original. He's best when describing gruesome details (like torture or murder) with a slight grin, as if he's building to a punchline. HOUSE OF WAX established Vincent Price as a horror film icon.
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