Mystery of the Wax Museum

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com

Bet ya didn't know that the "original" House of Wax was a remake! Here's the real original (in fact, it was a play even before this), a 1933 film that is strikingly similar to the Vincent Price horror film, but which also borrows heavily from then-popular vampire movies. Lionel Atwill plays the Price part, but Fay Wray is more memorable as the wannabe gumshoe who's on the case of the local wax museum and why its wax figures have an uncanny resemblance to the recently dead. Made in early, two-strip Technicolor.

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Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Michael Curtiz
  • Producer: Henry Blanke
  • Screenwriter: Don Mullaly, Carl Erickson
  • Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon
  • MPAA Rating: NR