![]() And then they kill off the majority of the characters in quick succession. It's almost 40 minutes into the movie before the villain, or one of them at least, appears. There's no reason that this movie, and I went back and checked, should be 1 hour and 47 minutes long. Another problem is the film is that it's so damn long. There's nothing special for about 2/3rds of the film. I just felt that, like I said, outside of the third act, it all felt a little too similar to other flicks in the same genre. I never thought it was a bad movie, at any point actually. Which is, as I mentioned, a run-of-the-mill slasher with very little that differentiates it from other films in the genre. I realize that the entire movie can't be like the third act, but the actual melting of the House of Wax is so inspired that you sort of wish that they serviced a considerably better movie than what we ended up getting. There's just something grotesque yet oddly enthralling about seeing this house and the wax figures, made of actual human beings, just slowly melting away. I don't know how to describe it properly, but the visuals of everything slowly melting was actually really fucking cool and, easily, the highlight of the entire damn film. Somebody starts a fire in the House of Wax, I don't remember the circumstances that led to it, and the wax figures and the house, which is made entirely of wax, start to melt. It should be obvious the scene I'm talking about. Even with that, however, this is still a fairly decent movie with one of the coolest visual set pieces I've ever seen in a horror movie. You've seen it before and you will certainly see it again until the end of time. It has the basic story of a group of teens, or in this case adults in their 20s, being hunted down by a murderous madman, or madmen in this case. Admittedly speaking, this is about as generic a slasher as you will ever get. But this movie isn't about Paris Hilton nor is it centered around her character. And, honestly, I think she could have done well in films like this, where they don't really require much in the way of acting talent. She was barely in the movie, but she was perfectly fine in the scenes she was in. She's obviously not super talented by any means, but she wasn't bad to the point that she deserved a Razzie nomination for worst actress. Twelve years removed from the film's release I can say that, in all honest, Paris Hilton isn't as bad of an actress as one would reasonably expect. And because there was a sort of morbid curiosity to see how bad of an actress she would be. I say big deal in that people wanted to see her die a gory death because they hated her so much. The point of this all is the fact that when this movie was announce, it was sort of a big deal because of Paris Hilton being in it, even though her fame was fading by this point. Which is unlike the Kardashians, who have stuck around longer than anyone ever wanted them to and who I wish would just go away live their lives in obscurity. Paris had more of a shooting star quality, she was gone almost as fast as she hit the 'big time'. Let's just say that she was Kim Kardashian before Kim Kardashian was ever known. This was back in the day when I was still high school, so some of you, at least some of the younger people, might not even know who this woman is. Remember him? And Paris Hilton was famous for, essentially, being famous. ![]() The #1 album that same week was Something to Be by Rob Thomas. The number one song in the U.S, the same week of this film's release, was the awful Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani. I'm sure you all know the biggest mistake. America was just made their second biggest mistake in their presidential elections when they re-elected George W. Rating: R (Language|Horror Violence|Some Sexual Content) Once inside the spooky and seemingly abandoned building, they find the works on display are not quite what they seem - and the group soon discovers it's being hunted by the insane twin brothers who run the museum. They are forced to seek help in the only place that's open: the local wax museum. A gang of college friends, including Wade (Jared Padalecki) and his girlfriend, Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), are en route to a school football game when they wind up with a flat tire in a ghost town.
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