House of Wax

This movie gives it to you, as no movie has in some years. Okay, if that's not your part of the swamp, don't go into it.Read Full Review »

A sturdy and cohesive representative of what tends to be a flimsy and tawdry B-movie genre. It even has a moral: People who live in wax houses shouldn't start fires.Read Full Review »

The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula, including a last-minute plot twist that opens the creaky door to a sequel.Read Full Review »

Except for when Paris is on screen giving us the winking sex eye, Wax is just a museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks.Read Full Review »

Only a nominal remake...Nevertheless, for gore aficionados (and probably no one else) the murders are worth the wait.Read Full Review »

House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone attending House of Wax could reasonably expect, assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much.Read Full Review »

The problem is that the writing is too weak for me to come close to recommending it.Read Full Review »

Isn't bad as these things go, although these things go nowhere a healthy individual should want to. Having never claimed to be a healthy individual, I found it tolerable.Read Full Review »

Paris Hilton is the big draw in Jaume Collet-Serra's not-really-a-remake horror-slasher thriller House of Wax, and she'd have to be: There's so little else going on in it that you find yourself waiting for her few brief scenes.Read Full Review »

For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude.Read Full Review »