Of course little do the hot young twenty-somethings know – two brothers are planning to make them permanent additions to the museum. And the models themselves are so lifelike – almost disturbingly so. Literally everything inside is built out of wax. While there, they check out the town’s main attraction: Trudy’s House of Wax. Wade and Carly take a stroll to the nearest town to get the necessary equipment. They camp on the side of the road for a night and wake up to find one of the cars damaged. The kids are on their way to a college football game. Dalton (Jon Abrahams) – Wade’s gross friend with an icky crush on Carly. He’s also black, which means death is imminent. Blake (Robert Ri’chard) – Paige’s boyfriend, a little more sexual than Wade. Paige (Paris Hilton) – bubbly blonde, outgoing girl. If the narrative is generous, he may survive. Nice guy but at odds with the older brother. Wade (Jared Padalecki) – Carly’s boyfriend. Stereotypical bad boy – loves smoking, drinking, reckless driving and getting kicked out of various jobs. Nick (Chad Michael Murray) – Carly’s twin brother. We’ll sound them off with a role call: Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) – responsible and ambitious, slightly more modest than her friend. The plot of course has the twenty-somethings. This of all things was the film that kicked off my love of slashers. I watched this one not knowing the clichés or the formula. So it’s quite weird that this film was the first slasher I ever saw. I’ve been a lover of slasher films for ages – Scream, Halloween, April Fool’s Day and I Know What You Did Last Summer being some of my favourites. My attitude to the following film is alarmingly like the one I have to Van Helsing. And eventually only the virginal Final Girl will be able to defeat the killer. The teens will be picked off one-by-one in various creative ways. This leaves them as easy prey for some crazy killer on the loose. For whatever reason, they’re up to no good (drinking, cursing, underage sex). We have a group of teenagers or else young twenty-somethings. The plot is incredibly simple and paint-by-numbers. If you know, you know.So as we edge even closer to Halloween, it’s time to explore another subgenre of horror movies: the teen slasher. I’d stay and explain the semantics of this scene, but it’s not necessary. He pulls out a vintage video recorder, gets close to Hilton’s bloody face, and records himself as he pulls the pole out of her head. The killer approaches his victim, who is lying on the floor with a pole in her head. This scene makes up for the otherwise bland film, but what makes Hilton’s death scene particularly meta, if you may, is the last few seconds. Suddenly Van Holt, enraged by his own psychosis, throws a pole, with surprisingly great aim, and pokes a hole through Hilton’s head. Hilton’s death comes around the 1 hour and 17 second mark of the film, the heiress of the world-and her tangled extensions-is trying to escape her killer (played by Brian Van Holt) as she cries and hides from her inevitable death. I’m no film critic, but I do know a thing or two about outlandish and campy performances, and Hilton’s portrayal of Paige Edwards, a pretty girl about to get killed is, for lack of a better word: iconic. House of Wax earned $70 million worldwide, thanks, in part, to people literally lining up to see Hilton die. But her clout as Hollywood’s it party girl served the film well. The director’s decision to include the world’s most famous-for-not-being-famous person in a horror film was a surprise twist. The cast included, among others, Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, and Hilton. For his version, Collet-Serra enlisted a group of hot, young actors to be slashed and waxed. In 2005, director Jaume Collet-Serra ( The Shallows, Orphan, The Commuter ) decided to revive House of Wax, the 1953 horror film starring Vincent Price. About the only thing that will get me to watch horror is Paris Hilton. I hate horror so much so that I have yet to watch The Exorcist or IT, but sometimes life isn’t fair, and one day I was forced to watch The Ring, and it nearly destroyed me. In order to live a happy life there are a few things I tend to avoid: hot coffee, the L train on weekends, Instagram influencers, and above all scary movies.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |