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Originally posted by alkytrio666
Actually, I don't think House of Wax ('53) was a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum ('32). Different movies, I think, just similar themes.
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Both great films, though structurally each suffers from the same problem - the most exciting scene, the burning of the wax museum, takes place at the beginning of the films. It's an up-hill battle to keep the momentum going afterwards.
Most interesting to me are the differences in the films. MYSTERY was set in the present day (30's), while HOUSE was a period piece.
Lionel Atwill's assistant in MYSTERY was a drug addict. Price's assistant in HOUSE was an alcoholic.
Both of these changes suggest to me that Warner Brothers was trying to play it safe with HOUSE OF WAX. No drugs! And let's make it a period piece so it will be scary!
While the last ten minutes of the new HOUSE OF WAX was definitely interesting visually... I found it to be a dismal mistake otherwise. Price and Atwill are both spinning in their graves.