House of Wax (1953 film)
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| Directed by | Andre DeToth |
| Produced by | Bryan Foy |
| Screenplay by | Crane Wilbur |
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The Wax Works (unpublished short story) by Charles S. Belden |
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| Music by | David Buttolph |
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| Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $23.75 million |
House of Wax is a 1953 American warnercolor 3-D horror film about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. Directed by Andre DeToth and starring Vincent Price, it is a remake of Warner Bros.' Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), without the comic relief featured in the earlier film.
House of Wax was the first color 3-D feature from a major American studio and premiered just two days after the Columbia Pictures film Man in the Dark, the first major-studio black-and-white 3-D feature. It was also the first 3-D film with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater. It premiered nationwide on April 10, 1953 and went out for a general release on April 25, 1953.
In 1971, it was widely re-released to theaters in 3-D, with a full advertising campaign. Newly-struck prints of the film in Chris Condon's single-strip StereoVision 3-D format were used. Another major re-release occurred during the 3-D boom of the early 1980s.
In 2005, Warner Bros. distributed a new film also called House of Wax, but its plot is very different from the one used in the two earlier films. The film starred Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton and Jared Padalecki . This version received largely negative reviews from critics.
In 2014, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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