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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum *** (1940, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie) – Classic Movie Review 9043

Director Lynn Shores’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is an eerie series entry, set at the eponymous New York Wax Museum presided over by the usual mad scientist. There […]

Nov, 02

Horrors of the Black Museum ** (1959, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 8,144

‘No woman can hold her tongue. They’re a vicious, unreliable breed!’ – Edmond Bancroft. Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1959 British horror movie Horrors of the Black Museum stars Michael Gough as crime writer Edmond Bancroft, who provides […]

Feb, 18

Chamber of Horrors *** (1966, Patrick O’Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker) – Classic Movie Review 5796

The lurid 1966 period black comedy horror Chamber of Horrors was made for TV but then considered too gruesome for the home audience of the day. Director Hy Averback’s lurid, tongue-in-cheek 1966 period black comedy […]

Jul, 22

The Frozen Ghost *** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Tala Birell, Martin Kosleck) – Classic Movie Review 3766

Director Harold Young’s chilling 1945 low-budget Inner Sanctum horror mystery again stars Lon Chaney Jr, this time as stage hypnotist/ mentalist Alex Gregor. Normally we are just metaphorically driven mad by our agents, but Gregor is literally driven mad […]

May, 24

Waxworks [Das Wachsfigurenkabinett] ***** (1924, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss) – Classic Movie Review 2149

Stuttgart-born film pioneer Paul Leni’s 1924 German Expressionist feast focuses on a young poet and writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of gothic stories for Harun al-Rashid […]

Feb, 02

House of Wax **½ (2005, Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Brian Van Holt, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri’chard) – Classic Movie Review 1,111

A marketing campaign promoted the 2005 chiller film House of Wax as ‘See Paris Die’ in a gruesome fashion, and Hilton was sporting enough to create shirts with the slogan. She won the Golden Raspberry […]

Apr, 18

House of Wax **** (1953, Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 1,110

The venerable and revered 1953 chiller film House of Wax is best remembered for Vincent Price’s gloriously camp and flamboyant performance, but it is also fondly recalled for its 3D effects. Director André de Toth’s venerable […]

Apr, 18

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