HOUSE OF WAX
Main actors Vincent Price, Carolyn Jones,
Frank Lovejoy
Date of release 1953
Audience rating on Rotten Tomato 72%
Worldwide box office £17,072,551
PLOT Vincent Price plays Professor Henry Jarrod, a wax sculptor who runs a museum in New York. When a financial partner suggests that they burn the museum down to receive insurance money, Jarrod tries to stop him, only to be badly beaten in the burning museum. Escaping horribly disfigured, Jarrod builds a new museum that showcases crimes, including the murder of his former business partner…
VR INFLUENCE Back in the 1950s, with television halving cinema attendance, Tinseltown launched its inaugural three-dimensional ventures, with Warner Bros’ House of Wax the first 3D flick in colour. Unlike Scent of Mystery (see right), the House of Wax is…