The first thing that one notices is that Dark Castle has thrown out almost anything to do with either House of Wax 1953 or Mystery of the Wax Museum and come up with their own film. House of Wax 1953 was in turn based on an earlier film Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), which had starred Lionel Atwill in the role. In the same vein, House of Wax is nominally based on House of Wax (1953), a 3-D film starring Vincent Price as a mad waxworks curator who hid his face behind a mask and turned the people he murdered into his wax creations. Dark Castle have had some box-office (if not exactly critical) success with their horror films over recent years, which have included the likes of House on Haunted Hill (1999), Thir13een Ghosts (2001), Ghost Ship (2002), Gothika (2003), The Reaping (2007), Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007), The Hills Run Red (2009), Ninja Assassin (2009), Orphan (2009), Splice (2010), The Apparition (2012), The Factory (2012) and Seance (2021).ĭark Castle have a clear liking for 1950s horror films – both House on Haunted Hill and Thir13een Ghosts were remakes of earlier films by William Castle. House of Wax was the fifth film from Dark Castle Entertainment, a company set up by Back to the Future (1985) director Robert Zemeckis, action producer Joel Silver and Gilbert Adair, producer of Tales from the Crypt (1989-96), with the aim of producing horror films.
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