Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

daoldiges I've seen this movie in both 2-D and 3-D and highly suggest waiting until you have the opportunity to experience it its original 3-D if possible. If that's not an option for you then it's still worth checking out even in 2-D, it just won't be as fun. It offers lots of good and then some not so good elements. The leading lady is a bit bland and some of the supporting characters acting is weak. However, the story is solid and interesting, Price is excellent, the sets and score are engaging, and it's kind of fun seeing an early Bronson role. I have to admit that I never really found this film actually scary, but I still enjoy it quite a bit.

dragunov-52990 House of wax brought something new to the world, 3d filming(not actuall 3d with special glasses). The movie was so intense and misterious for 1953 the ending will leave you breathless and shocked but as we could see and learned that most of pre 60's horror movies had a good ending. Vincent Price is playing a very misterious role in this film, he has to portray the modern and calm yet obsessed with wax figurines, serial killer, calculate in every way. The two friend(portrayed) actresses played a + and - role. The + was the woman who was thinking straight and didnt chase the boys and didnt really cared how she looked and the - was her friend wich was exact opposite. Overall a great movie

Hitchcoc This is a great fifties horror film. As is often the case, Vincent Price plays a kind and gentle man. He is a great artist, sculpting some of the greatest historical figures in wax. His work is considered amazing. Unfortunately, he has a greedy partner who needs money. This guy sets fire to the museum to collect insurance money. Price's character is though to have died in the fire, but it turns out he has been badly burned and deformed. He is also filled with anger and vengeance. He sets out to rebuild the museum. Interestingly, some of his figures are quite lifelike. One looks a lot like his former partner. Others look like people who did him wrong. We can guess what he is doing. Because Price is such a great actor, he can be so menacing, so cruel. We have to root for him because the cause of his rancor is not his fault. Wonderful horror film.

GL84 Attempting to start his career over, a wax sculptor returns several years away to use a group of low-lifes around him to be the models for his next display and forces an inspector and his girlfriend to stay on top of him to halt the madman's rampage.This is a prime slab of early classic horror that is extremely interesting and packs a couple more thrills than it should for its time. With this one single film, we are introduced to the wondrous Vincent Price as a horror icon, and this is one assured debut. Price is in top form here, and the fact that we can see his work for the first time in a horror film makes this one an extra special film. Even without that recognition, it's an entertaining 50's cheese-fest that features a lot of great moments. The beginning of the film is one of the film's best features, as a fire destroys a wax studio in a nice action set-piece that normally doesn't have these big scenes in movies and it's a wonderful, eye-opening first sequence. There is also a long and extended chase scene through the dank, fog-laden streets of London that really drives home some suspenseful moments. The murders are cool and violent for the time being while not overly stepping over any bounds of decency in place then. The other chase sequences are just as striking, with the last one being the top one in the film. That leads up to a spectacular conclusion that is so incredibly action-packed here with plenty of full- on struggling and brawling around in the wax lair that's fun on its own even before the utterly spectacular fire that spreads throughout here leaving the entire building in flames that makes the film all the more fun. The final revelation of Price's character is also one of the classic moments in the history of film, and it's just as shocking today as it was then. It gives some great chills, and the method used is pretty creative and unique. These here are all more than enough to hold this up over what is basically just one really lame and utterly bland flaw. Basically, most of the 3D sequences in here were pretty cheesy. That's not to say they didn't work in the film, just that they were pretty cheesy, easy-to-spot and not at all that convincingly done either. For the time, they might've worked but for the most part the gags haven't aged well. It's a toss-up as to which ones don't, but they're so noticeable and replayed throughout nearly every single 3D installment that they're not all that difficult to find faults with them. The only other small flaw is we saw the skin of Price's after burns much too early and often. It works wonderfully and has some fantastic abilities to shock, but too much is seen of it for it to be of much use in the scare department. It should've been hidden better to have an effect. Otherwise, for the film that introduced Vincent Price to the horror community it deserves some recognition.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.