Overview
Genre :
HorrorRelease Date :
May 06, 2005MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Jaume SerraStarring :
Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton
REVIEWS RATE:
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“..this the creepiest horror remake..”
by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon]
“..the dullest scary movie ever made..”
by Sarah Chauncey [Reel]
“..The best thing about "House of Wax" is the house..”
by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News]
“..shallow characters, weak screenplay, implausible plot, and the obligatory moment..”
by Scott Spicciati [Movie-Vault]
“..Rubbish but totally ruthless..”
by Jamie Russell [BBC Films]
“..overlong, unscary, poorly paced and banally written..”
by Sean Axmaker [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
“..merely another tale of men who do bad things with good knives..”
by Scott Craven [The Arizona Republic]
“..just another slasher flick..”
by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
“..just a dark adventure splattered with R-rated extremes..”
by Bruce Westbrook [Houston Chronicle]
“..it?s the best one so far this year..”
by Doug Bentin [EFilmCritic]
“..isn't remotely scary..”
by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
“..is nothing very special here..”
by Kotleta [Iofilm]
“..is definitely worth seeing for its stunning finale..”
by Matthew Turner [ViewLondon]
“..is dead boring..”
by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic]
“..incredibly gross and the finale is still a doozy..”
by Roger Moore [The Dallas Morning News]
“..complete with fast edits, nu metal, a masked freak and strange surgical devices..”
“..Collet-Serra sets up the sequence with deliberate care and drags it out to the point of sadism..”
by Marrit Ingman [Austin Chronicle]
“..an unwelcome shock..”
by Helen O'Hara [Empire Magazine]
“..a typically slick horror yarn..”
by Kevin C. Johnson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
“..a museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks..”
by Gregory Kirschling [Entertainment Weekly]
“..a merely laughably bad film..”
by James Verniere [Boston Herald]
Reviewed by Bob Strauss [L.A. Daily News]
