![]() ![]() He sets fire to the museum, nearly killing poor Jarrod in the process. Although I’m on Vincent Price’s character’s side overall, I kind of see where Matthew Burke is coming from too, wanting to make a few bucks out of a horror show.īurke is even more desperate for money than Jarrod realises, however. That’s why we buy horror DVDs and books and true-life crime magazines, and why we go to a Chamber of Horrors or, in the old days, to a travelling freak exhibition or for a ride on the ghost train at a funfair. ![]() People love a good scare, and they’re more than willing to pay for it if it’s good enough. Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London probably features some of these lads. She supposedly retained her legendary youth by bathing in the blood of virgins, whom she obviously had to murder first. Crippen, say, or John Christie, the Rillington Place murderer, Burke and Hare, the infamous body-snatchers, or even- thinking outside the box here!- Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary. I’d love to see a Jack the Ripper waxwork set against a Victorian backdrop, or any other famous serial murderers either from real life or from films Dr. We have one here in Dublin in our little wax museum with Hannibal Lecter in it and Buffalo Bill from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, as well as Dracula (modelled on Christopher Lee in the Hammer films) in his coffin and Freddie Krueger from the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movies. I don’t personally see anything wrong with the idea of a Chamber of Horrors. Jarrod is naturally repulsed by the idea and refuses point-blank. He wants Jarrod to sculpt more sensational pieces that could form the basis of a Chambers Of Horrors-style exhibition and bring more paying customers into their premises. His business partner Matthew Burke is more concerned with the figures on their balance-sheets than with the stunning figures moulded by Jarrod, however. He specialises in aesthetically-pleasing historical figures and considers his Marie Antoinette to be the pi è ce de resistance of his magnificent collection. Vincent Price is superb as always as Professor Henry Jarrod, who spends his days lovingly crafting wax sculptures whom he thinks of almost as his children, he loves them so much. The film was in 3-D and I’ve honestly never been happier to sit in the dark for ninety or so minutes wearing a pair of ridiculous oversized glasses that cut into my poor little ears and nose. I had the great pleasure of watching it recently on the big screen at Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema. This film is a fantastic horror classic starring legendary horror maestro Vincent Price. (WRITTEN IN 2016, IN PRE-PANDEMIC TIMES!) STARRING VINCENT PRICE, CAROLYN JONES, PHYLLIS KIRK, PAUL CAVANAGH, DABBS GREER AND CHARLES BUCHINSKY, AKA CHARLES BRONSON. ![]() BELDEN AND THE 1933 FILM, MYSTERY AT THE WAX MUSEUM.
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