May 18, 2005
Movie: House of Wax 2005
us rating R
105 minutes
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
superstars:
Elisha Cuthbert (girl next door, Love actually), Chad Michael Murray (Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story), Brian Van Holt (Black Hawk Down, Man of the House), Paris Hilton (duh), Jared Padalecki (Gilmore Girls, New York Minute), etc etc etc....
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I see wax people!
I admit it. I was sucked into the movie because I wanted to see what Paris Hilton could do besides lounging around looking like a sexpot millionaire.
Here's the run down.
A group of friends get lost out of their way taking a 'short cut' to some big football playoff and wind up having to spend the night in some random field.
Cue in scary dude in a truck, mysterious smells, someone's car breaking down and random hillbilly taking them to the nearest town for spare part. Insert mysterious wax museum that's closed down, nosey teenagers poking around where they shouldn't be poking around and you've got yourself an instant 'horror' flick.
I admit it. I did like the movie. I did successfully get creeped out but only during the end scene when people started getting chased around in melting wax by crazy serial killer brothers.
I saw this movie alone in an empty theatre so for those of you who may be thinking this is a totally 'scary' movie... it's not. I did perfectly fine and I'm a wuss. It's more of a thriller than anything--the usual predicable 'college student' type film. 'college student' meaning I would lable this as a late highschool/college esque audience film.
(((sort of spoiler)))
Once again I was irritated by the fact that no one questioned the presence of the mysterious hillbilly who drove them to the town. He said he was working in some other town but dumped his roadkill in the area....you would think that he would have some idea the whole town was made of wax and was totally fake.
I was a bit dissapointed by the ending.
Worth watching if you're killing time and enjoy tame thrilling 'horror' movies.
oh yeah and Paris dying was gross!
Posted by prism at May 18, 2005 09:38 PM