![]() ![]() However, as Wade checks his car he finds his 15-inch fanbelt cut and tampered with.īlake says that they all can ride in his car and pick up a fanbelt in a nearby town. The following morning begins with hustle as Blake desperately tries to get the group to depart immediately for the game. The mysterious man soon takes off after Nick shatters one the the truck's headlights. The group soon depart and are soon convinced by a complaining Paige to pull in and set up camp in the local area.Īt camp, they are interrupted by a mysterious man in a truck who has headlights on at them. Outside, Paige's boyfriend Blake is freestyle rapping and typing into his car's GPS the route to Memorial Stadium for a college football team's biggest game of the year. ![]() One of the two girls, Carly Jones, is having a discussion with her friend Paige about getting an internship at In-style magazine in New York.Īlong with them is Carly's boyfriend Wade, who has just emerged from the restroom, Carly's narcissistic twin brother Nickand his friend Dalton. Several years later in present day, 6 teenagers are at a highway diner at night. She ends the commotion by slapping the misbehaved child across the face. He kicks the table, causing her sculpture to fall onto the floor, then he scratches his mother's hand. They are then interrupted by the father and another son who is kicking around in his father's arms and is soon strapped into a highchair. It begins in 1974 as Trudy Sinclair, a famous wax sculptor, is sculpting while her son is eating breakfast in his highchair. On October 25, 2005, the film came out on DVD and on Blu-ray on September 26, 2006. It was released in theaters on to negative reviews, but a financial success. It shares the name of a 1953 horror film, which was a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum. If you know, you know.House of Wax (alternative title: y Jaume Collet-Serra. I’d stay and explain the semantics of this scene, but it’s not necessary. He pulls out a vintage video recorder, gets close to Hilton’s bloody face, and records himself as he pulls the pole out of her head. The killer approaches his victim, who is lying on the floor with a pole in her head. This scene makes up for the otherwise bland film, but what makes Hilton’s death scene particularly meta, if you may, is the last few seconds. Suddenly Van Holt, enraged by his own psychosis, throws a pole, with surprisingly great aim, and pokes a hole through Hilton’s head. Hilton’s death comes around the 1 hour and 17 second mark of the film, the heiress of the world-and her tangled extensions-is trying to escape her killer (played by Brian Van Holt) as she cries and hides from her inevitable death. I’m no film critic, but I do know a thing or two about outlandish and campy performances, and Hilton’s portrayal of Paige Edwards, a pretty girl about to get killed is, for lack of a better word: iconic. House of Wax earned $70 million worldwide, thanks, in part, to people literally lining up to see Hilton die. ![]() But her clout as Hollywood’s it party girl served the film well. ![]() The director’s decision to include the world’s most famous-for-not-being-famous person in a horror film was a surprise twist. The cast included, among others, Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, and Hilton. For his version, Collet-Serra enlisted a group of hot, young actors to be slashed and waxed. In 2005, director Jaume Collet-Serra ( The Shallows, Orphan, The Commuter ) decided to revive House of Wax, the 1953 horror film starring Vincent Price. About the only thing that will get me to watch horror is Paris Hilton. I hate horror so much so that I have yet to watch The Exorcist or IT, but sometimes life isn’t fair, and one day I was forced to watch The Ring, and it nearly destroyed me. In order to live a happy life there are a few things I tend to avoid: hot coffee, the L train on weekends, Instagram influencers, and above all scary movies. ![]()
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