Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: House of Wax (1953)

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe continue their trio of 3-D films with the first color 3D feature film from a major American studio: 1953’s “House of Wax.” It’s the movie that remade Vincent Price as a horror icon, and it also features performances by Charles Bronson and Carolyn Jones. (orignally published 04/28/2023)

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. It's Monday, so we have a classic episode of
0:08.7	Weird House Cinema here for you. This one is going to be our episode on House of Wax from
0:14.1	1953. This is a 3D cinema classic starring the fabulous, as always, Vincent Price.
0:23.6	It is the movie that made him a horror icon.
0:26.8	It also features performances by Charles Bronson and Carolyn Jones.
0:31.2	It originally published 428, 2023.
0:34.5	Let's have it.
0:38.4	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:48.3	Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.
0:51.8	And this is Joe McCormick, and we're back with week two in our series of three weeks of 3D. Last week's movie was the 3D Adventure Treasure of the Four Crowns. Today's film is the 1953 horror classic House of Wax starring Vincent Price. Now, since we're going to inevitably be tempted to compare and contrast with last week's
1:15.9	film, Treasure of the Four Crowns, I want to write off the bat and mention some big
1:21.5	differences that at least are my opinion.
1:24.7	Maybe your opinion will be different, Rob.
1:26.4	But I'm going to say, House of Wax is in almost every way a much better movie than Treasure of the Four Crowns.
1:33.5	Both are great, campy fun.
1:35.9	But House of Wax is actually a really solid horror movie, clever, stylish in a way that Treasure is not.
1:43.2	Oh, absolutely.
1:44.3	House of Wax is in a league all its own compared to treasure of the Four Crowns.
1:50.2	And we'll get into that.
1:51.3	It's, I mean, it's an important 3D film.
1:53.4	It is a 3D film that very much holds up to subsequent viewing in subsequent decades, regardless of whether you're watching it in
2:04.3	3D or 2D.
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