On one hand the film is full of inexplicably dumb sequences, which should make a decent viewer loose any interest in it, but on the other there are scenes, which are so great, that the movie immediately justifies itself. So let's see... First of all I gotta tell, that (and it is quite a common cliché of modern horror films) the only relatively smart character is the black guy. Blake, pretty well played by Robert Richard by the way, had made numerous sane proposals, which, if they had been accepted by this bunch of white teens, could have saved their lives. But unfortunately the whites in the film, except for the maniacs, who are pretty witty, are actually one dumber than another. The characters are so dumb, that it somewhat harms the credibility of the movie. Here I gotta mention, that for the first time in a very long time I was actually siding with the killers, hoping, that they would kill all those morons as soon as possible! The guys are so stupid, that not only they decide to stay for the night next to a stinky graveyard, full of animal corpses, for two consecutive nights, prefer to return to an abandoned & creepy place instead of being patient enough to just wait in a traffic jam on the highway, but also keep on breaking in houses & shops snooping around in an utterly insolent manner. I mean, if I hypothetically invite a stranger to my home supposedly to help him, but what the stranger does is snooping through my personal belongings, then will I get mad, even if I am not a crazed maniac? Oh, sure I will! Yet some points of the story were good. I actually liked the fact, that two main characters are twins, which are quite different & they are opposed by Bo & Vincent Sinclair, also twins & also different. As for an attempt to develop multiple story lines & sub-plots... Well... The storyline with Paige Edwards's (played by Paris Hilton) supposed pregnancy is just straight ludicrous! Why should we care? Yet, I can't say, that the storyline with Wade, the dumbest idiot of all of them, refusing to move to New York, because he is afraid of is any better. I liked the villains though... I mean they are really crazy killers. Some scenes are impressive too: especially I liked the fake funerals, movie theater scene & burning house of wax. The visuals are good & I don't mean Paris Hilton's butt here, thought it's really good too. Some funny jokes are also there. There are some meaningful moments as well, despite the general idiocy of the characters, and this is the director's merit.
Review of House of Wax
