Review #230: House of Wax (1953)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #84: House of Wax (1953) I saw the 2005 House of Wax movie many years ago, and spent most of the time since assuming that it was a remake of this film. That's not at all the case- the two movies have nothing in common except for the title (and I actually recommend both movies, if you have the time). This is also the first color movie I'm watching this month, which was a welcome detail! (Unfortunately I'm not done with black and white films, as there's still six more of those, including tomorrow's movie.) House of Wax introduces us to Henry Jarrod, a wax sculptor whose passion for the medium outweighs his monetary ambitions. His business partner, Matthew Burke, feels differently and sets the museum and all of Jarrod's work on fire in order to collect insurance money, and Jarrod is assumed to be killed in the fire. But when Burke is killed shortly after by a grotesqu...