![]() The progress of the plot is predictable: One Post-Teenager after another becomes Dead, usually while making a stupid mistake like getting into a pickup or entering the House of Wax ("Hello? Anyone home?"). They haven't even seen " Scream" and don't know they're in a horror movie. Had Wade and Carly only seen the 1953 Vincent Price thriller, they might have saved themselves, but no. Carly and Wade are attracted to a mysterious House of Wax that dominates the town much as the Bates home towered above "Psycho." Wade scratches a wall of the house and says, "It is wax - literally!" This is either an omen, or the homeowners were victimized by siding salesmen. Yes, and for that matter, what happened to everybody else? No citizens prowl the streets, although some seem to be attending a funeral. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" is playing at the cinema. The nearby town seems stuck in a time warp from the 1960s. That night, when they are alone at the camp (not prudent), she treats her boyfriend Blake ( Robert Ri'chard) to a sexy dance that perhaps reminds him of a vi'deo he once saw on the Web. Is that a human hand sticking up from the middle of the pile? "This is weird," observes Paige. ![]() Not the kind of person you want to ask for a lift. The guy is dumping a carcass into the pout at the time. Wade ( Jared Padalecki) and girlfriend Carly ( Elisha Cuthbert) unwisely take a ride into town for a replacement fan belt - from a guy they meet when they discover the source of the smell: A charnel-pit of rotting road-kill. An ominous sign: Fan belts do not often break in parked cars. In the morning, a fan belt is found to be mysteriously broken. The kids should flee immediately, but no: They settle down for the night. You do not get away with headlight-breaking in Chainsaw Country. The guy in the pickup truck drives up and shines his brights on them until Carly's ex-con brother Nick ( Chad Michael Murray) breaks one of the headlights. They decide to camp overnight in a clearing in the dark, brooding woods. I didn't mind the slow start, since it gave me time to contemplate the exemplary stupidity of these students, who surely represent the bottom of the academic barrel at the University of Florida.Ĭonsider. The man knows how to do engaging genre films and he's got a gift for action set pieces, which certainly gets shown off in the climax here.Īnd as a final note, this is one remake I have zero issues with because the original "House of Wax" itself was a remake of "The Mystery of the Wax Museum.Some will complain that the movie begins slowly, despite a steamy sex scene involving Paris Hilton, and an ominous confrontation with a slack-jawed local man who drives a pickup truck, an innocent and utilitarian vehicle that in horror movies is invariably the choice of the depraved. I'd add also that a big reason the film is better than expected is due to it being the directorial debut of Jamue Collet-Serra, who has since gone on to have an ever-increasingly impressive filmography, including "Orphan" and "The Shallows" in the horror genre. She plays the part she was supposed to and really, she was only here to add free publicity to the film and get a crowd-pleasing death.
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