Waxwork

[Andrew]

Had the chance to watch this one lately and I was surprised to learn that I had never seen it before (had seen the second and mixed the two up).  It moved along much like one would expect, with numerous people disappearing, two kids knowing the truth, and a hard-bitten cop threatening to kick their butts for lying about the wax museum.  Not great, but I was not bored.  However, then the evil gets loose and a horde of couragous citizens shows up, led by the butler and the professor in his battlewagon wheelchair.   Wow, plain wow.

Also, does anyone think that Billy is going to have an interesting time learning his new girlfriend's kinks?  I mean, this is the girl who was trapped in the Marquis  De Sade dimension and she did not seem all that out of place.

Lesson learned:
Dracula was an expert with mortar and grout.
A bazooka and satchel charges should be standard equipment for any Egyptologist.
"It's Alive" is a classic horror movie.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I have only caught this flick on Sci-Fi.  Have yet to see it without editing.  Overall it was an enteraining flick.  Classic monsters, an S&M chick and the guy from Gremlins.  


How could you go wrong?

[Brian Ringler]

I'm a fan of both waxwork and waxwork 2 and was happy to finally get it on dvd even though there are no extras to be found

[JohnL]

>Also, does anyone think that Billy is going to have an interesting time learning
>his new girlfriend's kinks? I mean, this is the girl who was trapped in the Marquis
>De Sade dimension and she did not seem all that out of place.

It's the repressed ones you have to watch out for! :)

As for the film, Waxwork is one of my major disappointments. When the movie first came out, Robert Englund's World of Horror showed the vampire scene (the dinner and her being bitten on the stairs) and the Marquis De Sade scene. I thought it looked like a great horror movie. Then I actually saw it and discovered that those were about the only good scenes in the entire movie. Everything else was either cheesy or stupid comedy. The scene with the girl running around the butcher's block with the guy strapped to it has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in a movie.

Don't get me wrong, I like stupid comedies, but not in the middle of a horror movie. Anthony Hickox doesn't have a clue how to inject comedy into an otherwise serious movie. He's not even all that good at outright comedy.

[Bonehead XL]

I've always liked the Waxwork films for some ungodly reason. I enjoy the first, even though the second is almost complete trash. Still, there pretty entertaining if you want something you don't have to pay to much attenion to.

[Gecko Brothers]

Welcome back Andrew They are going to release a third one this year

[Pepak]

I liked it a lot, it was much better than I expected. Among other things it is one of the visually more appealing horror movies, with enough light to actually see what's happening. Sure, the werewolf looked funny, but I like funny so I don't mind.

[Chopper]

i always thought this one was a big stinker, and not a good one at that. it's your typical formulated slasher flick except it takes place in a wax museum. that one scene though where the rats are eating that dude's leg always got to me.