This is the original preview for House of Wax - a 1953 American horror film starring Vincent Price. The film was a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and was the first 3-D film of the 3-D craze of the early 1950s.
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette
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swampgirlCool! This brings back memories of Sunday afternoons spent at the theater as a kid. The local theater often would run old 3D movies and this is one I remember.
The glasses usually just gave you a headache,haha Nice find, Gwaan
lisacatI just watched another Price classic last night on TCM..."The Tomb of Ligeia" sadly, nothing on YouTube yet but the same campy horror feel, melty wax and lots of fire!
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