Overall Rating:   3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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Paris, 1900. As a little girl, Sonia witnesses the slaughter of her parents by a mysterious man with a steel arm. Years later in Rome, she is hired as a dressmaker at a wax museum owned by Volkoff, a sinister artist who recreates perfect replicas of famous crime scenes. A series of strange deaths in the area has led a young journalist, Andrea, to investigate the mysterious vaults of the museum. Curiously, the workshop in which Volkoff's wax statues are created seems more like a scientific laboratory than a sculptor's den. Andrea and Sonia are soon plunged into a nightmare as they both learn the secret behind Volkoff's statues and the connection he bears to the steel-armed murderer of Sonia's parents.
Produced by Italian horror master Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red), this blood-chilling remake of the classic House Of Wax was to have been directed by the late Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Beyond), who died shortly before production began. Using Fulci's script, adapted from an original story Argento, makeup and special effects master Sergio Stivaletti instead makes an auspicious directorial debut, combining Gothic atmosphere with modern-day mechanical and makeup effects. Wax Mask (Maschera Di Cera) is a gory shocker that puts a new twist on the tale of the spooky wax museum.
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Features:
| Photo Gallery
Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Creation of the Film's Special Makeup Effects
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| | Widescreen 1.78:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
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| Studio: Image Ent.
Production Year: 1997
Release Date: 9/5/2000
Length: 98 mins
Rating: NR
Chapters: 16
| Packaging: Snap Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: ID8745RPDVD
UPC Code: 014381874525
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Overall Rating: 3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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GOOD PRUDUCTION VALUES REPLACE OVERT HORROR - 3.25 out of 5 (10/15/2000)
THE WAX MASK is a very straightforward, humdrum story of murders commited in a wax museum. It's almost disparaging to think that if the film makers weren't so commited to adapting the essence of the Leroux story, this could easily have have been reworked into a giallo murder thriller with a very advantageous setting.
The film makes surprisingly little effort to conceal who the heroes and villians are, so the element of mystery becomes subjugated by the obviously higher priority of the compute
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Great...who would have thought? - 4 out of 5 (10/11/2000)
Argento produced, Fulci written, destined for disaster. Argento and Fulci's strengths have always been as directors and not as writers. However, Stivaletti did a phenomenal job in the remake to the Vincent Price classic House Of Wax. I still can't believe how good this actually was.
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