Pole impaling Paris Hilton's head, wax melting, and creepy hillbillies in a ghost town. What more could you want? I was very skeptical about watching this movie, and worried that it would be full of Hilton's horrible acting, at-least I was right about that. Let's get down to the brass tacks though, and what everyone is thinking about. What did Manio think of House Of Wax, and if I haven't seen it yet should I?
The film was released in 2005, so it's about 6 years old. This is one of the first films I've seen Elisha Cuthbert in other than her role in Popular Mechanics For Kids, and The Girl Next Door. So, let's get down to business. House Of Wax is your typical horror-film, riddled with cliches. The film starts off showing us a family, but no faces and a child freaking out his high-chair before his mom smacks him right across the face, ouch.
Eventually, time fast forwards and we come to modern day time with a bunch of friends driving to Dallas (I think) to see a football game. Nothing too interesting there, football just isn't my thing. Either way, the group decides to take a break and camp out before continuing the last few hours of their trip. While camping some creep pulls up in his truck, people yell, and somebody tosses a beer bottle causing the guy to drive away. Eventually, the next morning Elisha's character's boyfriend finds that his car is broken down and needs a new fan belt (Oh no! A horror cliche!). So, Elisha and her boyfriend head into town with a creepy hillbilly after he disposes of some deer carcasses in a pit. I don't know about you but I wouldn't ride in a truck where a creepy looking hillbilly hauls around dead animals, that just screams rape scenario.
Either way the couple make it town and start exploring the wax museum where the wax figures look realistic. Move ahead about half an hour or so and the carnage begins, and the friends find out that the town is being run by the two maniac brothers from the beginning, and continuing the legacy of their mom's wax sculptures by killing people, and covering their corpses in wax. It's fucking weird, and morbid. The film is extremely predictable, and right from the start you'll be able to pick out some cliche's used in most horror films nowadays.
I definitely don't recommend anybody watch this film. It's boring, and just way too predictable. However, it does have Paris Hilton getting a pole impaled through her head so that could be seen as a shining moment for this film, whereas everything else just blew serious ass. I will say that this is one of the worst horror films I have ever seen, total disappointment but I wasn't expecting much considering Paris Hilton is part of the cast. Thumbs down!
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