Keeping up with the family tradition of Friday Night is Horror Night - our film of choice this week was House Of Wax - the Vinent Price one (directed by Andre De Toth), not the crappy remake with Paris Hilton!
There's alot of humour in this one, trying to alleviate the tension is my guess. I do like Vincent Price's make-up after his accident and how he turns from mild-mannered artist into an insane grave-robber who likes to preserves corpses in wax.
I don't think much of the acting, some of the characters are meant to be funny, I have no problem with that, only the acting of the leading lady (Phyliss Kirk) and the supposed love interest (Paul Picerni - or Mr Colgate Perma-Tan) was lousy in comparison to VP.
Its also prophetic as it was filmed in 3D - very advanced for the 1950s! There are a couple of scenes that bring humour and also makes use of the 3D technology of the time. Although I saw Clash Of The Titans last year in 3D and I don't think its advanced much further - we still have to wear those silly glasses!
At the end of the film, we found the original Mystery Of The Wax Museum from 1933 on the DVD - what a great surprise - two films in one night! Directed by Michael Curtiz, its pretty clear that the VP version is virtually a carbon copy if this film. Even some of the dialogue is the same. Although I found it hard to keep up the dialogue because the actors speak incredibly quickly - I kept thinking "why don't they pause for breath!" It even has Fay Wray - the actress who was in the original King Kong movie.
Until next week,
Toodles
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