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      Nightmare in Wax

      PG 1969 1h 35m Horror List
      Reviews 6% Audience Score 100+ Ratings An actor disfigured by burning wax seeks revenge by luring his enemies to a ghoulish waxworks exhibit. Read More Read Less

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      Steve D As cheesy as they come. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Dumb, kinda fun, silly, but not close to being any good. The characters are goofy, the plot is lackluster, and there isn't much else to the story though it's not entirely bad either. There's some nice camp for the most part, yet I can't say it's worth the film alone. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Hell Hath No Fury Like A Wax Sculptor's Scorn--mean n' cheezy!! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This badly edited and dated horror sees a wax museum caretaker using a personally developed serum that causes paralysis, which he uses against actors and those who disfigured him to make them figures in his museum. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Mill Creek's 50 Movie Pack: Chilling Classics Reviews NIGHTMARE IN WAX [1969]: Starring cult movie star Cameron Mitchell in this blatant rip off of MYSTERY OF THE WAX WORKS MUSEUM [1932]/ HOUSE OF WAX [1953], this forgotten Drive-In movie is a mildly entertaining film. The plot sees a deranged Hollywood Make up Artist (Mitchell) seek a vendetta against the studio boss who disfigured him. The Artists revenge plan is to kidnap the stars of the Studio Boss and turn them into displays in his wax works museum. Before too long his next targets are the Boss and his ex-fiancée. THOUGHTS; with a decent performance by Mitchell and a plot that owes a lot to classic horror films; NIGHTMARE IN WAX isn't a bad film. Sadly it is just plain average. How is this achieved well thanks to the most clichéd end twist in cinema history which the title so subtlety implies. My rating for this film is a solid 50%. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Ever since the release of Mystery of the Wax Museum in 1933 and it's more popular remake House of Wax starring Vincent Price in 1953, wax museums have had a solidified place in horror cinema. However it would be only a matter of time until a film came around to tarnish that creepy setting and that film would finally come in 1969 with Nightmare in Wax, the cancerous grown of all the wax museum horror films that came before it. Out plot has a madman running a Hollywood based wax museum attraction, only he uses live people as his "wax" creations. It seems years ago our wax artist was engaged to a beautiful actress but her manager wasn't too thrilled and in a fit of rage throws a full class of wine into our artists face while he is smoking a cigarette, setting him ablaze! This sequence is unintentionally hilarious! He survives, scarred up and wearing a patch wreaking revenge on the Hollywood types. This is truly Z grade material and everything about this film is bottom line, except for our wax artist played by genre great Cameron Mitchell. His the ONLY thing that makes this film actually watchable, shitty makeup and all. The rest is just hogwash with bad acting, novice directing, and the absolutely dumbest cops ever to disgrace a horror film. Perhaps the dumbest aspect of the film is that our wax artist doesn't kill people and then preserve their corpses as wax figures, he instead injects them with some sort of serum in that paralyzes them. He then posses them ALIVE in his wax museum. This is where the ridiculous plot element kicks in as the serum gives out when the victims are exposed to electricity. Cue in the electrical storm and predictably we have our wax figures rise up to take revenge on their "artist." Fans of Z-grand material will enjoy and I will admit it kept my attention but that doesn't hide the fact this is a very poorly made film. The reputation of the wax museum being a respectable horror setting was tarnished until the release of Waxwork in 1988 brought it back to its former glory... that is until that fucking second House of Wax remake infected theaters in 2005! Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An actor disfigured by burning wax seeks revenge by luring his enemies to a ghoulish waxworks exhibit.
      Director
      Bud Townsend
      Production Co
      Paragon International Pictures, Productions Enterprises Inc.
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 9, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 35m