Hot on the heels of the kick ass poster for HOUSE OF WAX, the good folks over at Dread Central have posted a description of the first trailer, which they saw in front of a screening of CONSTANTINE no less. Gotta say wow, this one is quickly going up in my esteem.
The setup appears to be simple: college kids have car trouble. College kids stumble upon spooky, rural town. Entire town turns out to be populated by wax figures, who are actually wax-covered human bodies. Maniac who loves turning humans into wax figures begins terrifying and murdering the kids. Hilarity ensues.
That doesn’t sound like much, but the trailer was all business. We’re shown a body (alive? dead?) in an apparatus being showered in hot wax. We’re shown figures coming to life and assaulting people. We’re shown people struggling in vats of wax. Paris Hilton runs a lot and screams a lot. We also see her as a wax figure, so if nothing else we’re assured she dies a horrible death at some point in the film. Elisha Cuthbert manages to look incredibly cute and terrified at the same time. We see tunnels and catacombs that seem to be sculpted out of wax and body parts. Fire. Screaming. Blood (or red wax?) in mass quantities.
Most important, we see the villain.
Yeah, that’s a shocker, eh? It’s a Dark Castle picture with a villain (you’ll note that none of them, so far, have had a single direct antagonist save for maybe Ghost Ship) AND we get a good look at him within the first trailer! And what we see…boy howdy, I have to say, it got my engines running. He’s got long black hair, wears a trenchcoat, and has two nasty knives. We see him drawing them, jabbing them, slicing and dicing…the guy just screams “badass” and gives me great hope that we may have a new movie monster/villain to love and hate. Hell, I want an action figure of him just based on the trailer.
Word is the trailer may hit the net this week so that we can all check out the madness. Ya know we’ll tell you as soon as it drops.
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