![]() Even the police begin to investigate the professor, and it leads to a fantastical finale where the full-on 3D effects are put to use. There’s an obvious connection between Jarrod and the strange ghoul terrorizing the people of the city. ![]() As she begins to suspect something sinister is going on, we, the viewers, have pretty much already been let in on what is happening. Upon the opening of the new museum, Sue Allen notices a striking resemblance between the museum’s Joan of Arc wax figure and her roommate Cathy. One of the victims is Jarrod’s old partner Burke and another is Cathy Gray (Carolyn Jones), the roommate of art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk). At the same time, a ghoulish, deformed man is terrorizing the city, killing people and kidnapping cadavers from the local morgue. Years later, Jarrod reemerges, however, with a new museum just about to open. ![]() When Jarrod stays behind to try to save the museum, he ends up caught in the fire, and presumed dead. Henry Jarrod, talented owner of a wax museum whose partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts), plans to burn the place down to collect insurance money. Vincent Price, in his first fully-fledged horror feature, stars as Prof. A lavish remaking of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum (provided on this disc as well), and miles above the 2005 slasher remake, House of Wax was ironically directed by the one-eyed André De Toth who somehow overcame his lack of depth perception to craft a visually eerie, groundbreaking piece of Gothic horror that perfectly utilized the 3D medium at the time. This is the classic version of House of Wax, from 1953, starring Vincent Price, with its storied 3D visual production that helped set the 1950s 3D craze alight.
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