#1953vs2005

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House of Wax...then and now...

New month, new content on Shudder! I watch many things on shudder that don’t get a Tumblr post, but I love comparison or movie type posts. I have a couple of them up here. With December, came a new “horror classic” film, House of Wax. I found 2 out of the 3 films I believe are out there, based on a novel in the early 1900′s. 

House of Wax (1953):

VINCENT PRICE. Really, is there any bad movie with him in it? Even when he is playing the bad guy? He is just amazing. I quite loved this film, its different than I thought it would be. Great beginning, tight story, and all around creepy film. I would love to have seen this get a sequel and just be scary as sh*t. 

House of Wax (2005):

I most times will go into a “modern” remakes of the oldies with a “vintage preference bias”. I will admit it. But, I can’t say I hated this film, it was very long. It could of been shorter, but it was decently made so nice enough to look at. I loved that it took a literal meaning to a house made of wax. Decent story, good effects and felt enough like the older version that I would recommend it.  

If I can, I would love to find the original 1933 version to do a full comparison, but for the fact that there is what, 50 years between both films in this post, its a good enough comparison without it. This as a classic horror story is iconic, I loved this since I was a kid reading RL Stine “Reader Beware You Choose The Scare” as a teenager and always dying in the “Haunted Wax Museum” story.