On a boring Friday night, when my sister suggested going to see House of
Wax, I had low expectations going into it and was very doubtful that it would be any good, it seemed badly casted, with PARIS
HILTON for gods sake, but it seemed like a cheesy popcorn horror movie so I went to the cinema, only to come out thinking
how gripping it was.
The plot line is quite simple, although the build-up is very clichéd. Group
of teenagers go on a road trip and camp out, only to be stalked by a vicious killers. A man and his siamese twin take over
the wax works which was run by their mother, and turn the entire town (which has been conviently forgotten) into wax, and
luring victims into the rigged town and to their deaths to become wax figures. Once the characters wander into this town,
then the horror starts, although it takes a good three quaters of the movie to get into the gore, like all horror movies.
Full of loads and loads of gore, I think its only major competetion is Saw.
This movie is like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre crossed with Psycho, full of lots of suspence and well built up characters,
where you don't actually want them to die, like in so many other movies.
An excellent performance from Elisha Cuthbert as Carley and Chad Michael Murray as her twin brother Nick.
The other characters are mediocre and Paris... well low expectations on her part was right, she sucks. But all in all if you
like a good suspence movie that is actually quite scary in some parts (my sister did grip my knee a few times during it) then
I recomend going to see this.
