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House of Wax is a 2005 horror/thriller film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It is a loose remake of the 1953 movie of the same name starring Vincent Price and the 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum
. It has been said, only half-jokingly, that the major reason it did as well as it did financially was because people wanted to watch Paris Hilton die. It was released to theaters May 6, 2005, and to DVD on October 25, 2005.

Synopsis

The film starts out in 1974. There's a scene of a woman melting wax to put onto a facial mask. The woman says nice things to one little boy who is sitting in a high chair eating a bowl of cheerios. Then the dad comes out of another room into the kitchen with a screaming and kicking rageful little boy. The dad restrains him in the high chair with leather wrist restraints and puts duct tape on top to reinforce the restraints. This boy's wrists are bleeding from tightness of the restraints. The boy kicks the table and causes mom's facial mask to fall off the table and break apart. She verbally abuses the little boy and smacks him in the face.

Then the movie fast-forwards to the present day...

While driving through Louisiana on their way to an important college football game, six teenagers stop at a camp site. They notice a horrid stench emanating from somewhere nearby in the forest surrounding their camp site. Then they have a confrontation with a trucker, whereby one of the male teenagers throws a beer bottle at the truck, breaking one of the headlights. The next morning they suspect that their car has been tampered with, since the fan belt was broken. To avoid being stranded, two of the teenagers (Wade and Carly, who are boyfriend and girlfriend) accept a ride into a small deserted town nearby named "Ambrose" by a man they encountered dumping animal carcasses into the woods (lots of deer, chickens, etc.). He claims his job is to pick up the roadkill from the interstate and other roads nearby to take them to this "pet cemetery." This is where the foul stench had been coming from the night before. The other four teenagers drive away in a separate vehicle to get to the college football game on time.

Wade and Carly go into the town of Ambrose after being dropped off at the town's edge by the man who gave them a ride. They are drawn to Trudy's House of Wax, a museum with surprisingly life-like wax sculptures. Carly notices that all the pieces of wax-work are signed by somone named "Vincent." Carly notices in a mirror hanging on the wall that someone was spying on them through the window.

Suspiciously, all the buildings in Ambrose are closed and there is no one walking around on the deserted town streets. Wade and Carly go to the town church and mistakenly believe they interrupted a funeral service. A man (named Bo) comes out of the church and yells at Wade and Carly for interrupting the funeral service. However, Bo tells them that he works at the gas station and will help them find the replacement for their car (fan belt) so they can get back on the interstate.

Meanwhile, back on the interstate, the other four teenagers (Nick, Dalton, Paige and Blake) are stuck in gridlock traffic. They decide that they aren't going to get to the college football game before it ends (since it was already half-time). With some resistance from Blake, the only African American character depicted in the movie, Blake drives them back to the camping site they had left Wade and Carly earlier that day.

Bo offers Wade and Carly a ride back to their car. However, he stops at his house to get the correct size fanbelt, since he didnt have it in the gas station. Wade asks if he can use Bo's bathroom and Bo says yes. They go inside while Carly stays in the truck outside. It's dark now. Carly gives Paige a call on her cellphone and tells them that she is in a small town not too far away with Wade and a man who worked at the gas station who is going to drive them back with the fan belt to fix Wade's car. At the same time, Blake tells Nick and Dalton that he needs them to go to the town so that he can have an opportunity to have sex with Paige. (Paris Hilton is Paige). Thus, Blake gives Nick his keys (even though Dalton wanted to drive) to go to the town. They drive toward the town, but notice that the truck's satellite navigation system doesn't show any town anywhere near them. They both think this is strange.

Back at the town, Wade wanders through Bo's house looking at various objects and the lights go out. Suddenly his ankle is cut by Vincent (Bo's twin brother) with a pair of scissors and he falls to the ground. He gets thrown down some stairs by Vincent and is restrained. His facial hair is waxed off and he is injected with some clear fluid (probably morphine). He goes unconscious and awakens to find himself sitting upright in a metal restraining structure in a basement dungeon-like room with various steaming pipes and furnaces. Wade's entire naked body is sprayed with hot wax, except for his eyes (which are pulled open with metal pins).

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