House of Wax (2005)
I originally saw House of Wax back in 2005 when it was released. I remember it being creepy then but, for some reason, I forgot all about it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397065/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Until last weekend. I was up really on Saturday morning and it was on TV. I couldn’t watch it then, not starting in the middle, so I decided to watch it Sunday evening – before The Walking Dead season premier. Which, on a side note*, was a very.bad.idea.
*{I mean, did you see The Walking Dead? I think that is the most brutal television I have ever witnessed…..And I watched Dylan’s wife basically mistakenly get assassinated on 90210, breaking my teenaged heart!! Someone referred to the Sunday night’s The Walking Dead episode as “beautiful brutality”, and I guess maybe it was. Because, those of us who have watched the show from the beginning have become so emotionally involved in it, we haven’t been subjected to that kind of violence and loss-of-humanity on TV before, have we? I certainly hadn’t.}
I was so literally traumatized from TWD, and from this darn movie, that I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t even close my eyes. I eventually got up out of bed and roamed around for a bit, but not before turning my side lamp on at least four times. Just to clear my head.
Anyway, House of Wax is a pretty good movie. It’s not quite Scream, but really, nothing is.
It’s got some pretty folks in it. It’s got Paris Hilton getting slaughtered a bit, which, back in 2005, when Paris Hilton was (fuckingunfortunately) a household “thing”, was pretty awesome.
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It’s got spooks and some grossness and some thrills.
And then it’s got this guy popping up.
No freakin’ wonder I couldn’t sleep!!
The movie apparently doesn’t have much, if anything to do with the original House of Wax, starring Vincent Price. Although, that creepy-ass white face up there is named “Vincent” in the movie….and I literally just got that. Duh!
But it was a freaky little movie that I would have enjoyed a lot more if I were surrounded by a horde of people….and puppies….in the daytime.
~Sandy
Horror Hotel
As I continue with the tradition of watching scary movies in October to prepare for Halloween, here’s a little treat:
Last week I watched Horror Hotel (aka. City of the Dead) on TV. It’s an old black and white from 1960 and it did not fail to creep.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It stars a young Christopher Lee and a bunch of other people I’ve never heard of.
The movie starts out 300 years before the present time in Massachusetts with Elizabeth Selwyn being burned at the stake for witchcraft. As she’s burning she curses the town and its people.
Jump to present day to Christopher Lee as a professor teaching tales of witchcraft from his hometown -where said witch Elizabeth was burned, and one of his students, Nan, having the beauty idea of going to the cursed town to work on her thesis. Brainiac. Seriously.
When Nan enters the town she is greeted by a stranger – who has a habit of disappearing. Literally. Right from the passenger seat of her car.
The town is clearly ominous as it is coated with a thick, dark fog all the time. Right then and then is when I’d be turning my ass around and going back to wherever it is I came from. But not Nan. She decides to check into the Horror Hotel – which is kept shop by none other than the reincarnate of Elizabeth Selwyn – now Mrs. Newless.
Gimme a break – I would burn this beyotch again and again!
The townspeople stare and give her the evil eye on more than one occasion. Things go missing. Things appear. Dead birds are planted. Stabbed through the heart. And dumbass Nan sticks around.
I’m going to give anymore of the story away but for a movie made in 1960 about witches and witchcraft – it was pretty good. Definitely lame at times. Definitely some bad and overacting at times, but it gave a few shudders.
Up next, House of Wax.
~Sandy
My Neighbors Are Vampires!
Not really Benny
Not quite June
