Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra Written by: Chad Hayes & Carey Hayes Starring: Elisha Cuthbert .... Carly Jones Chad Michael Murray .... Nick Jones Brian Van Holt .... Bo/Vincent Paris Hilton .... Paige Edwards Jared Padalecki .... Wade Jon Abrahams .... Dalton Chapman Robert Ri'chard .... Blake Dragicia Debert .... Trudy Sinclair Release Date: Tribecca Film Festival: April 30, 2005; Quick Theatrical: May 6, 2005 Rating:

Two teenage twins named Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and Nick (Chad Michale Murray) go on a trip with their friends into a deserted forest to have fun for the night.
They encounter a vehicle with a driver inside of them staring at them and then the driver leaves.
The next day, one of the kids' vehicles is damaged and needs a fan belt so, they try to go into town to get something to repair their vehicle.
They encounter a strange man in a pick-up truck dropping off roadkill. Carly and one of her friends named Wade (Jared Padalecki) gets a ride from him.
There they encounter a quiet little town that is apparently deserted.
They meet up with a man named Bo (Brian Van Holt) at a local church there who works at a gas station as they buy a piece of equipment at his station to fix their car.
They also encounter a House of Wax museum but it looks very strange.
Later on they get a ride from Bo as he needs to pick something up at his home and Wade uses his bathroom. Wade is then captured, tortured and then turned into wax for their display at their museum. Carly tries to escape and warn others but eventually they end up getting slayed by Bo and his more powerful freaky looking siamese twin brother Vincent.
Carly and Nick tries to find any way to escape their madness but also finds out that the locals at the town are built out of wax that were once people too as well as the whole town being built of wax.

This 1953 remake very much resembles to Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses but in much better taste and style.
Although the film is not the least bit original it's still very disturbing and effective without a doubt.
A creepy feeling with those victims having wax melted over them so they can't move or do anything.

The acting is fairly well done but Paris Hilton did not stand out at all as usual in her films.
Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray perform well together as twins plus Brian Van Holt was great in his role as the deceiving man Bo as well he is convincing playing a different character as his ugly siamese twin Vincent.
The opening scene was very intense with the abusive parents and the younger Bo and Vincent as children.

Lots of horror violence folks.
We get stripped off skin
Waxed heads blown off
Torn off waxed arm
Decapitated head
Wooden spike through a blonde's head
Bo's head being bashed in with a baseball bat and lots more.

Jaume Collet-Serra knows what do to make a film disturbing, dark and spooky.
He had great locations of the vehicle creeping in on the teens at night as well as having a creepy touch with the tall tree's.
The scene between Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray when she discovers who he really is was also well directed and during the chase between her and him and what he does to her.

We have some wonderful scary classical music composed by John Ottman who knows what he's doing for sure with each scene of this film.

We also have a soundtrack by many alternative bands like Deftones, Chops featuring Raekwon, Disturbed, The Von Bondies, Interpol, The Prodigy, Har Mar Superstar, Stutterfly, My Chemical Romance, The Stooges, TJ Santana, T. Macc, Young Shame and Taboo, bloodsimple, Marilyn Manson, Brothers Conti, My Chemical Romance, Joy Division and Dark new Day. The songtracks were also very good for the film too.

Carly Jones: [Carly hears a noise outside the tent] Wade, wake up. Wade! I heard something.
Wade: Yeah, it's probably the serial killers or something.

Nick Jones: [Dalton is filming the campsite, everyone is making out. Nick sits alone] Don't even think about it. There's no way I'm kissing you, dude.

Blake: [choosing which one to give the keys to] Actually, Im going to let my man Drive
Dalton Chapman: [hands Dalton the keys] You heard the man, get in the car!
Nick Jones: [squeezes Dalton's nipple] Give me the keys.
Dalton Chapman: Okay!

Carly Jones: You have to be careful!
Nick Jones: I am being careful.

Paige Edwards: Did you find that fan belt thing or whatever?

[scraping a piece of the House of Wax off with his knife]
Wade: It is wax, like... literally.

Carly Jones: Please don't kill me.

Paige Edwards: That's weird.

Bo: What are you doing?
Carly Jones: Waiting for Wade.

Blake: Hey, man, turn your lights off.

Nick Jones: I swear to god if you hurt her... VINCENT!

Nick Jones: He did this to you?

Dalton Chapman: You're just gonna let 'em leave like that? That guys a freak, he throws dead animals in a pit for a living.
Nick Jones: You clean shit for a living,Mr Septic Tank Man. Whats the difference?
Dalton Chapman: Well, um - I don't walk through it. That's one difference.

Carly Jones: [about the smell] I think it's coming from over there.
Paige Edwards: [sarcastically] Yeah, let's follow the smell.

Paige Edwards: [after giving Dalton a makeover] He looks like a smurf.

Carly Jones: I don't believe this. You steal a car and it's my fault. You evade arrest and it's the cops' fault...
Nick Jones: One of 'em took a swing at me.
Carly Jones: You get kicked out of the house, it's mom and dad's fault. You lose your football scholarship and it's the coach's fault! You can't keep a job for more than two weeks because it's every manager's fault!
Nick Jones: I'm surrounded by idiots.
Carly Jones: So then why did you come, to piss me off?
Nick Jones: Why don't you get it? You're the good twin, I'm the evil one.
Carly Jones: Grow up. You are so afraid to take things seriously.

Dalton Chapman: Hey do you think that Wade will stay with Carly after she moves to New York?
Nick Jones: I don't know. Maybe...
Dalton Chapman: Cause you know... the way shes been lookin at me...
Nick Jones: Hey! It ain't happening, man. And even if it was happening - it ain't happening.Nothing personal
Dalton Chapman: Why's that? I mean, you like me better than Wade right?
Nick Jones: [sighs] Wade's not so bad.
Dalton Chapman: Yeah, I like Wade, too.

Blake: [after Dalton is given a make-over] He looks like Elton John, only gayer.
Dalton Chapman: Elton John is gay?

Paige Edwards: Lip balm. I dropped my stupid lip balm.

Bo: Mom would be proud. She always said that your talent would make up for what God took away from you.

Wade: I'm sorry, we just needed a fanbelt
Bo: A fanbelt? You walk in on a funeral for a fucking fanbelt?

Nick Jones: You're saying that that's a real person... underneath?

Trudy Sinclair: [talking to a young Bo] Shuddup! Oooh, why can't you be more like your brother?

Nick Jones: Ugh, Dalton, did you crap your pants again?
Dalton Chapman: What? No, I dont know, maybe. I am wearing my work clothes.

Nick Jones: [stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the game] It's not moving
Blake: It'll MOVE!
Paige Edwards: It's not moving
Blake: It will!
Nick Jones: Turn it around! Dude, turn the car around!
Blake: [Blake leans his head down in defeat, hitting the horn and making it blare]

Carly Jones: No, there's no-one at the gas station!
Paige Edwards: We'll meet you back at camp, but more than a few yards away from that pet cemetery.

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