House of Wax

House of Wax (2005): The title of this flick is one of the most accurate to come along in a while. This is a pretty standard horror/suspense movie and about the only thing new here is Paris Hilton showing up as one of the victims. She does pretty well and dies horribly but could sharpen here screaming skills a bit. It seems that some teen/early twenties types are going to see the big football game and camp out overnight in a location that is clearly too close to a center for strange people. They have a small problem with an apparently hostile local pick up truck and wake up to find one of their vehicles has a cut fan belt. This causes the cast to split up. The broken belted guy and his main squeeze head for the nearest town with a local who clearly has limited brain activity while the rest head off to the big game. After arriving in the town with the titular home of hydrocarbon heaven, they find a gas station with fan belts. This is not a good thing and cast depopulation begins shortly thereafter. Soon a few of them get axed and waxed. The others return from the big game and are also greeted rudely. The big climax comes in the house of melting hydrocarbons as a fire breaks out while the loonies chase the remaining teens through the house while it is turning into slush. Not bad for its type and it is supposed to be very loosely based on the old Vincent Price flick of the same name but other than the waxy house with hydrocarbonized residents, it pretty much has a new storyline. Perhaps it could have been called ‘A Town Without Pity’. Horror fans will like this one, but you normal people out there probably will not. The movie is rated R for: involuntary leg waxing, involuntary head waxing, the outskirts of Paris, the piercing of Paris, rampant tendon cutting, poor flooring, fingertip removal and for too much waxy build up.