redwhisper13
03-22-2007, 01:13 PM
Hollywood is soo bent on creating remakes these days, they have even started to draw from originally really crappy movies (The Wickerman). I say that they should take a look at some of the old stuff and see what NEEDS a remake. Waxwork was a movie with a really inventive plot but horrible effects, lighting, music, and acting. Made in the 80s, Waxwork is a movie about a wax museum (I know, you're thinking "What the hell? Didn't they just remake House of Wax?! Yes and no, watch the original with Vincent Price. Its waay better and the plot is so different.) Anyway, these dumb highschool kids are invited by a creepy old guy to come to the house (oddly enough, the wax museum is smack in the middle of a suburban residential neighborhood...?) for a midnight tour. They go in, see a creepy dwarf guy and go in to the main room. The museum is awesome and filled completely with horror scenes.
What makes the film inventive is the fact that each person, for some reason or another, steps into each wax scene and is then transported into the real scene. Then each of the die from some monster and they become part of the completed wax scene. The ending could use a rewrite and there needs to be more awareness of people missing to build the tension but the movie isn't half bad even as is (think of it as a movie that would be good to watch alongside Monster Squad, just a bit scarier). But reworked and using new technology and actors, it would a pretty good flick.
What makes the film inventive is the fact that each person, for some reason or another, steps into each wax scene and is then transported into the real scene. Then each of the die from some monster and they become part of the completed wax scene. The ending could use a rewrite and there needs to be more awareness of people missing to build the tension but the movie isn't half bad even as is (think of it as a movie that would be good to watch alongside Monster Squad, just a bit scarier). But reworked and using new technology and actors, it would a pretty good flick.