House of Wax (2005) Critic Reviews

This movie gives it to you, as no movie has in some years. Okay, if that's not your part of the swamp, don't go into it.Read the full review

After a month, no one will talk about this movie, ever again. Still, with a picture like this, there's really only one question: Is it any fun? Yes. Lots. Definitely.Read the full review

House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone attending House of Wax could reasonably expect, assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much.Read the full review

The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula, including a last-minute plot twist that opens the creaky door to a sequel.Read the full review

Like too many horror movies these days, House of Wax goes for scares, but settles for being gory and deeply unpleasant.Read the full review

Acting is similarly routine with the glorious exception of Hilton, who is so bad she steals the show.Read the full review

Except for when Paris is on screen giving us the winking sex eye, Wax is just a museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks.Read the full review

The problem is that the writing is too weak for me to come close to recommending it.Read the full review

Isn't bad as these things go, although these things go nowhere a healthy individual should want to. Having never claimed to be a healthy individual, I found it tolerable.Read the full review