![]() ![]() Armed with the unofficial tagline "See Paris Die" to capitalize on the backlash she was already receiving, the film is actually one of the most baroque slasher films of the era and a good deal more accomplished than anyone might have expected from the CW-friendly casting, featuring some genuinely macabre moments and a surreal climax that has to be seen to be believed. Instead, the film was far more similar to the cult classic Tourist Trap and came with a publicity hook that turned out to be something of a mixed blessing: the first significant film role for omnipresent pop culture fixture Paris Hilton, whose reality TV reign was just kicking in around the same time. Well, that was the idea at least, as the actual film ended up bearing zero relationship to its namesake (itself a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum) apart from featuring a fiery climax involving wax figures and a killer with a tricky wax-based mask. (Blu-ray & DVD) (US R0 HD/NTSC) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9)Īfter making its name on the horror scene with a pair of William Castle remakes starting in 1999 with House on Haunted Hill, the Joel Silver-controlled Dark Castle Entertainment (co-founded with Robert Zemeckis and Gilbet Adler) returned to the remake well one more time in 2005 with another Vincent Price-connected title, House of Wax. ![]() ![]() Starring Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Brian Van Holt, Jared Padalecki, Robert Ri'chard, Jon Abrahams ![]()
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