''House of Wax'' (1953)

By Crusader1307

1953s ''House of Wax'' combined several types of attention gathering ''gags'' which began to take hold in 1950s film making. The first was ''Color'' (which was seen as too expensive and cut into profits hence Black and White), and ''3 Dimensional'' viewing techniques. The film in question was filmed in a manner to enhance depth perception to a Viewer. This was accomplished via the wearing of special ''glasses'' which allowed the enhancement to be seen. These ''glasses'' were made of cheap cardboard and most often worked poorly. However, the ''experience'' was seen as an important component in the 1950s Movie Goers enjoyment. The process was used to enhance every thing from War Films to Comedies etc. It was no great stretch of the imagination when the first Horror Movie (rather a Thriller) ''House of Wax'' was released in ''3D''. A turn of The Century (early 20th) tale, a famous Waxworks Sculptor is noted for His very realistic statues. The very reason for this is that He uses real corpses (His Victims), as ''canvas'' (pouring molten wax over their bodies and sculpting them into Historical Figures). Years prior, Our ''Artist'' was horribly burned in a fire, causing Him to wear a wax reproduction of His former ''image''. Found out, another climatic fire (which melts off His false face to reveal His scars to The Audience), finally kills Him (and reveals the melting corpses of His Victims as well). American Fright Master Vincent Price stars in this (at times silly and somewhat familiar story) film. It has been remade MANY times in both Title and storyline.