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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Running Time: 107 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Australia
starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri'chard, Damon Herriman, Dragitsa Debert, Thomas Adamson
director: Jaume Collet-Serra
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A road trip to the biggest college football championship of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly, Paige and their friends, when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade and her hot-headed brother Nick. They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been tampered with, preventing their departure. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction--Trudy's House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets, they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose--or become permanent additions to the House of Wax.
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PETER TRAVERS -
May 5, 2005
Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting. It's Hilton and her five Louisiana homeys -- smart girl Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray as her twin, Jared Padalecki as her true love, Robert Richard as Hilton's boy toy and Jon Abrahams as the guy with the camcorder -- who decide to interrupt their drive to a college football game and camp out. Hilton, the hotel heiress, roughing it? Hello!
House of Wax is a lot like a used, day-old candle: burnt out, misshapen and cold. The film relies on the hoariest of '80s-era horror film cliches without even attempting to give them a clever spin. It somehow manages to waste considerable screen time early on not snuffing its teens yet still fails to develop its characters or story beyond one dimension and it achieves the nearly impossible feat of sullying star Elisha Cuthbert's red-hot appeal by subjecting her to grisly and bloody--but not
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