HOUSE OF WAX 1953 MOVIE

Impatient, Burke sets the museum on fire to obtain the insurance money. Renowned art critic Sidney Wallace is interested in buying Burke out in about three months after financing some excavations in Egypt. His business partner, Matthew Burke, wants to end their partnership, frustrated with Jarrod's refusal to add more sensational exhibits to increase profits. He creates historical wax figures such as John Wilkes Booth, Joan of Arc, and Marie Antoinette.

Professor Henry Jarrod is a talented sculptor who runs a wax museum in early 1900s New York City.

HOUSE OF WAX 1953 MOVIE

In 2014, the movie was deemed 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. released a remake of the film, but its plot was very different from the other films and was met with poor reception. Another major re-release occurred during the 3D boom of the early 1980s. Newly struck prints of the film in Chris Condon's single-strip StereoVision 3D format were used. In 1971, it was widely re-released to theaters in 3D with a full advertising campaign. It was the first 3D movie with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater. House of Wax was the first color 3D feature film from a major American studio and premiered two days after the Columbia Pictures film Man in the Dark, the first major-studio black-and-white 3D feature. It premiered in New York on April 10, 1953, and had a general release on April 25. A remake of Warner Bros.' Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933, the film stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated remains as displays. House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery- horror film directed by Andre DeToth.

House of wax 1953