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HOUSE OF WAX

Fans of the 1953 3-D Vincent Price classic House of Wax won’t be thrilled with Jaume Serra’s remake-in-name-only. Serra piles on the gore and drastically rewrites the original, which at least tried to mix some ideas about beauty and art in with the horror. The title House has been relocated to an isolated small town stumbled on by, yes, horny teenagers who have to fend for themselves against two brothers who need some new models for their wax figures and don’t care how they get them. The teens are played by teenybopper heartthrobs who range from competent to annoying. Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray as the twin-sibling leads fall into the former category; I’ll let you guess where Paris Hilton belongs. Gore enthusiasts will be pleased with the high body count and the creative execution styles, and those cruel folks eager to see Hilton picked off in gruesome fashion — there were several in the preview audience — won’t be disappointed. (105 minutes)

BY BROOKE HOLGERSON

Issue Date: May 6 - 12, 2005
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