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House of Wax

Year:
Duration:
113 min
Genres:
Horror | Thriller
IMDB rate:
5.3
Director:
Jaume Collet-Serra
Awards:
5 wins & 8 nominations
Details
Country: Australia
Release Date: 2005-05-06
Filming Locations: Australia
Earnings
Budget: $30,000,000
Opening Weekend: $12,077,236 (USA) (8 May 2005)
Gross: $32,048,809 (USA) (24 July 2005)
Cast
Actor
Character
Andy Anderson
Andy Anderson
House of Wax
Robert Ri'chard
Robert Ri'chard
House of Wax
Elisha Cuthbert
Carly Jones
Chad Michael Murray
Nick Jones
Brian Van Holt
Bo
Paris Hilton
Paige Edwards
Jared Padalecki
Wade
Jon Abrahams
Dalton Chapman
Dragicia Debert
Trudy Sinclair
Thomas Adamson
Young Bo
Murray Smith
Dr. Victor Sinclair
Sam Harkess
Young Vincent
Damon Herriman
Roadkill Driver
Emma Lung
Jennifer
Kendal Rae
Sexy Girl (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The death of Paris Hilton's character was originally longer and featured more gore but it was cut for the theatrical release.
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Names mentioned in the script but not the film are the roadkill collector (Lester), and Carly and Nick's last name (Jones). Chad Michael Murray (Nick), in a radio interview, was shocked to hear his character finally had a last name, and said that it was an ongoing debate on set.
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Jeff Celentano was once rumored to direct the film.
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Goofs
When Lester goes around the truck to open the door, Carly and Wade are looking to the left and down, trying to open the seat belt. In the very next shot, they are looking at the door on their right.
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The group is supposedly heading to LSU's Tiger Stadium. When the GPS is shown, the destination is Memorial Stadium, about 5 miles northeast.
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Nick and Carly run through the melting wax house, and emerge covered in molten wax, without the severe burns which should result.
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Quotes
Wade: [runs a lighter along one of Vincent's waxed miniature statues and talking in a silly voice] Oh no, there's a fire! Help me, Carly! My skirt's gonna catch on fire, my legs are all hot, you're my hero!
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Paige Edwards: [after giving Dalton a makeover] He looks like a smurf.
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Roadkill Driver: [sees Carly eyeing the knife on his belt] You like knives.
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Faq
Q
Will there be a sequel?
A
The ending and the film's financial success suggests a sequel is possible. However, the brother's house was destroyed at the end of the movie; the town was finally discovered; and the third brother seemed to have no involvement with the actual making of wax figures (humans included), which makes it doubtful that more could be done.
Q
Who dies?
A
Wade is the first to die, or at least to fall victim to the killers. He is ambushed in the house and paralysed before being coated in wax. He either dies from shock (due to the side of his face), or in the fire at the end. Dalton is killed next when Vincent decapitates him. Blake is killed next when he's stabbed in the neck. Paige is then hunted down and impaled in the head with a pole. Bo is beaten to death with a baseball bat by Carly. He either died from this or from the fire. Vincent is stabbed in the back by Carly before falling to his death in the molten wax.
Q
Exactly how did the brothers pull it off?
A
At the end of the film, the sheriff mentions that the town has basically been dead since the sugar mill closed down ten years ago. In a small town, that would have been the main source of employment. Without the mill, most of the younger people would probably have left town in search of other work. With fewer people to use the town's shops and facilities, they would have closed down as well, and the people who ran them might have also left. Those that remained were probably killed by Bo and Vincent and made into wax figures. Once there was nobody left in the town, they blocked off the road and gradually started pulling people off it (with the help of their other brother who apparently directed travelers to them). With the amount of missing persons cases today, and the town being virtually non-existent to the rest of the world, the brothers wouldn't be found suspicious since nobody knew about them. We know that they had been doing it for ten years at most, and that would be a reasonable amount of time to fill up the town with wax figures.
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