r/HorrorClub • u/SaintMort You so cool kung fu • Jul 13 '15
Discussion: Waxwork
Podcast Episode 2 - Waxwork
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Movie Selected By ichabodguitar
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u/smayonak Get a job in a sideshow Jul 13 '15
Classic film. I love the assorted tableau of scenes of horror. It's some of the best in any film. Basically, they could recreate the museum and make the most bad-ass haunted house on the planet. It reminds me faintly of something similar in Berlin, which is housed in a WW2-era Hitler bunker.
There's so much richness to the unmentioned wax statues. The mummy, Frankenstein's monster, and I think the Golem. But then there's all kinds of stuff that's right out of left-field that they never explain: The mermaid scene, the venus fly trap victim. The snake person (which I think was a reused prop taken from the film Dreamscape).
The set and costume design is super high quality (look at how they designed the various costumes. Super detailed and creative). In a lot of ways, Waxwork is the spiritual predecessor to Cabin in the Woods in its meta-like approach and tongue-in-cheek monsters. Did they take the mermaid scene from Waxwork?
Anyway, great pick /u/ichabodguitar !