House of Wax

If I were to rate this movie out of 10 I think I would give it a 4. Two points because of it's cool and unique plot and two points because Paris Hilton gets impaled through the head with a big wooden stake. Not that I have anything against Paris Hilton because truly I don't, it's just that she's such a terrible actress that it was a relief when her character was killed off. Not that any of the other actors were incredible. Chad Michael Murray and Elisha Cuthbert, the actors who play the two main characters. do an adequate job. They are realistic with their emotions and with their brother/sister relationship, however, they both seem to fall flat in some way. And I'm not sure it's their fault. The script was not great so they didn't have very much to work with. It was a very shallow script with stupid, cliche horror movie lines. However, this is a stupid, cliche horror movie so it didn't sound that bad.

Now, to talk about the actual movie. The plot is interesting and very unique in it's ideas. The movie is set in an abandoned town where there is an incredible wax museum called House of Wax. The owners of the wax museum have been dead for years and now the only people left in the town are the crazed sons of the owners. The sons chase after their victims and eventually cover them in wax and place them around the town. It sounds scary, but the visuals are inadequate. One scene in the movie shows the wax museum catching on fire and melting. It should be the scariest, most climactic part of the movie, but it falls very short because it looks so fake.

However, it was a mildly entertaining movie, but unless you truly just hate Paris Hilton and want to see her death scene it is not worth the two hours it takes to watch it.

-H