House of wax [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; produced by Bryan Foy ; screen play by Crane Wilbur from a story by Charles S. Belden ; produced by Bryan Foy ; directed by Andre de Toth. Mystery of the wax museum / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screen play by Don Mullaly & Carl Erickson from the story by Charles S. Belden.
[House of wax] Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Dabbs Greer, Charles Buchinsky, Reggie Rymal. [Mystery of the wax museum] Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allan Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. House of wax originally released as a motion picture in 1953 ; Mystery of the wax museum originally released as a motion picture in 1933. Durations: House of wax, 88 min. ; Mystery of the wax museum, 77 min. Includes House of Wax premiere newsreel, theatrical trailer.
Summary:
[House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive. [Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask.
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