Bluebell Alcock
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Asad Almond
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
theviperqueen
I usually prefer cheese in my food&not in my movies,but this movie is well done&quite entertaining. I'm not going to go on&on about actors&directors&such because I don't care about all that. The movie is what I'm interested in&it is quite interesting. Waxworks are not a new concept for movies no,but this movie is the best one about waxworks,that I've seen. It just seems to have the right mix&the cheese while certainly present,is not done to that annoyingly childish 'over the top' level like newer movies do too often. Plus,there are some nice tributes to some classic characters,real&fictional. Everything from a Jack The Ripper-like character,to a suave 'Dracula'&his pretty,hungry brides. And of course,Mr. S&M himself,the Marquis De Sade,who ironically gets the virgin of the group visiting the waxwork museum,into chains&she finds she likes it,quite a bit.(; Some nitpickers may loathe the few plot gaps there are,but since the movie is so well done,you hardly notice them,IMO. You step into the display&you will assuredly pay...with your life. BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!
bowmanblue
For the first half of this film I was contemplating turning it off. It was the acting that got me. I know you should never expect Oscar-worthy performances from slasher films, but this one was even worse than usual. Plus it seemed to be more like a clipshow from lots of horror films than a single story.Guys, if you're ever wondering how to attract women then this film has the answer: wait until you're about fifty then stand in the street wearing the most garish clothes you have. Do your hair in a comb-over then when two teenage schoolgirls pass by, invite them to your midnight show at a waxwork museum that's located in your average suburban street. Don't worry, they won't call the police on you - amazingly, they'll show up (and even bring their friends!).Again, that was another aspect I didn't like. The teens enter the wax museum and end up being picked off one by one in a different 'horror setting.' But, bear with it, there is a story somewhere in there.However, I stuck with it and I'm glad that I did. It's no classic, but it was silly and entertaining - which is all I ever expect from a horror movie. It wasn't that horrific, but it had plenty of rubber monsters being impaled on things (hey, it was made in the eighties after all - what do you expect!?) which is all most people want from their horror. So, if you can ignore the many plot holes in the first half, the second half is daft enough in a good way to be entertaining.Plus at least it doesn't have Paris Hilton in it (unlike the remake)
lost-in-limbo
Wasn't too crash hot on it the first time I saw it, but after this repeat viewing it was kind of better, but still not without its problems. Genre director / writer Anthony Hickox makes his debut with the morbidly tongue-in-cheek horror "Waxwork", which is a very silly, if gimmicky shocker with some impressively creative scenarios like when our heroine (Zach Galligan) finds himself transported into the black and white world of "Night of the Living Dead". Mark and a group of friends pay a midnight visit to a strange waxwork museum which has opened up in their neighbourhood overnight. The museum if filled with horrific displays of classic monsters; Dracula, the Wolf man, The Mummy, Phantom of the Opera and so son. Before they know it they find themselves drawn into the displays and becoming apart of that world and also possibly a victim. The concept is ambitious and downright inventive (in how it brings it's monsters alive and breaking the narrative into abrupt segments), but what occurs is conventional and there's a real uneven tone that turns what could have been disturbing into a ridiculous, eccentric and stupid outing that caps it off with a cheesy climatic showdown. It doesn't hold back, especially on the blood and gruel. It's vigorous in details and somewhat cruel. Hammy acting by most (led by David Warner and Patrick Macnee), but Zach Galligan and Deborah Foreman were agreeable with Michelle Johnson and Dana Ashbrook rounding off the cast. Also look out for Miles O'Keefe and John Rhys-Davies in bit parts. In all a fun cast working with a smarting, if smug script filled with references, self- parody and goofiness. Where the highpoint arrives from is the use of colourful make-up FX, waxwork designs and stylised visuals despite its limited scope. The project feels like a labour of love for Hickox. Someone who enjoys old classics of the genre in reviving them to post- modern times in "Waxworks". "This isn't my idea of fun".
FlashCallahan
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious. What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in it......Back in the day, this was one of those bizarre horror movies that you caught on TV and never saw again.There were very few scenes I remember, but I remember I loved the film and it's sequel. Finally getting a chance to see it again, the rose tinted specs did not help the fact that's found this a little too average.The references to 'something wicked this way comes' are rife throughout, and all I see in Galligan is Billy Peltzer acting the pathetic fool.It's a very bizarre movie, with great make up and cheap sets, but it redeems itself come the finale with its bonkers fight between old men and titular characters.After seeing this finale again, I really wonder how original Joss Whedon is, because it's so much like 'Cabin in the Woods'.All in all, it's average stuff with a couple of good scenes, but nothing special.
