#Horror waxworks movie
King Kong's Fay Wray stars in this early two-strip technicolor thriller, the blueprint for every wax museum horror movie to follow. So, with that bit of subjectivity out of the way, I present to you 9 films that exploit our fear and fascination with the wax museum. Later, I became aware of the glut of feature films that exploited this eerie experience, movies that mined the living’s innate mistrust and upset at, if not the dead, then imitations of the dead, dressed up and paraded around in what equated to be a perverse funeral home. I wondered why I had such an unsettling response to something that was meant to be marveled at. I thought about that experience as I lay in bed. I found the entire experience haunting enough and had no desire to see Dracula leering at me. I mean, who made these things? Were they once real? When we all left, would they come to life? And hey, did I just see Marie Antoinette move?īy the time I got to the Chamber of Horrors, I simply refused to enter.
Looking at these echoes of humans, some I recognized, some I didn’t and observing them unnerved me. But seeing these figures, these replicas of living things, standing still and staring, was a different thing entirely. I had been to haunted houses before that had monstrous dummies lunging at you and was suitably freaked out. Petersburg, Florida when I was five and it was a startling experience. I remember going to Louis Tussaud’s wax museum in St. A look at 9 classic and curious wax museum horror movies
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