If there’s any justice, Malignant will prove to studios how much horror fans miss the extravagance and full-send attitude of those wrongfully bashed 2000s genre releases like House of Wax.
It’s right there alongside House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001) as over-the-top horror with sizable budgets that push all-in on atmosphere, this one through the representation of melty, gooey details that Collet-Serra insisted remain as practical as possible. Audiences snubbed House of Wax at the box office with a $12m premiere, although $70m worldwide sounds better after an additional $42m in VHS/DVD rentals. I digress because we’re here to honor another misunderstood aughts horror standout from Dark Castle Entertainment. By those standards, wouldn’t 1988’s Waxwork be a more fitting remake by association to DeToth’s Old Hollywood creepshow given wax vats and deceased display figures?
It’s supposedly based on Andre DeToth‘s 1953 thriller of the same name, itself a remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum - but you couldn’t tell based on watches alone.Ĭollet-Serra admits in Fangoria Magazine that his House of Wax is essentially a remake of 1979’s Tourist Trap by “everything but name” - studio heads chose to capitalize on “House of Wax” nostalgia - abandoning Vincent Price’s betrayed sculptor and Grand Guignol theatrics. Jaume Collet-Serra‘s 2005 House of Wax remake is a mashup of influences and intentions.
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