#Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

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[weirdlookindog]

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

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MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)

Dir. Michael Curtiz

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[briefgardenerpirate]

Mystery of the Wax Museum and it's two remakes

01. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

02. House of Wax (1953)

03. House of Wax (2005)

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) dir. Michael Curtiz

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[keeperofdarkness22]

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

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I just watched House of Wax, the 2005 film and while it was pretty enjoyable the reason i bring this up here is because i noticed its based on a short story.

"The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden from 1932 was the basis for the film Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) as well as House of Wax (1953), Mill of the Stone Women (1960), Chamber of Horrors (1966) and of course House of Wax (2005)

Charles S. Belden died in 1954 so his short story becomes public domain as follows

In Europe and other Life+70 years countries: 2025

In New Zealand and other Life + 50 years countries: Already public domain since 2005

In the United States: 2028

Just thought that was neat, we getting close to it lapsing in copyright in most of the world.

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[littlegreenfag]

Folks, it's time to watch another Fay Wray movie! This time, it's gonna be Mystery of the Wax Museum! It's one of the movies that inspired my favorite Vincent Price movie (House of Wax), so I'm absolutely thrilled for this one! Let's hope her character's actually got a personality in this one!

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[schlock-luster-video]

On April 16, 1934, Mystery of the Wax Museum debuted in Hungary.

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[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Source Material: "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden Year: 1933 Genre: Psychological Horror, Mystery Rating: UR (Recommended: PG-13) Country: USA Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes

Director: Michael Curtiz Cinematographer: Ray Rennahan Editor: George Amy Composer: Cliff Hess Writers: Don Mullally, Carl Erickson Cast: Glenda Farrell, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Frank McHugh

Plot: Just before a wax museum opens, corpses begin disappearing from the local morgue.

Review: Snappy dialogue and striking visuals aren't enough to pull together a film that can't decide if it's a comedic noire or tense horror.

Overall Rating: 2/5

Story: 1.5/5 - You can guess the twist without even watching it and its disturbing central concept is only superficially explored. Too much time is spent on dialogue that is not as clever as it wants to be.

Performances: 2.5/5 - Atwell is an unmemorable bad guy, Wray is a generic damsel, and Farrell is sometimes trying too hard to be brash. There's also awkward fight scenes where the actors wrestle silently.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Great use of technicolor and fluid camera movements.

Editing: 2.5/5 - Overly abrupt cuts.

Effects: 4/5 - Wonderful use of pyrotechnics and some fun mad scientist tools.

Sets: 4/5 - The wax museums (there are actually two) are the highlights, though they're underutilized.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 2/5 - The burn prosthetics are a bit weak, even for the time.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Mild body horror

Ableist depiction of a deaf character

Misogyny (uncritically perpetuated)

Brief racism

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Warner Bros. Dir. Michael Curtiz

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

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Lionel Atwill in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

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[angeltannis]

got my family to join in on The Great Horror Movie Watchathon today to watch Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)! Anyone who's followed me for any length of time knows how big a fan of House of Wax (2005) I am. It's easily one of my favorite movies of all time.

It was super cool to get to see its origins! As a pre-Code horror film, this one was satisfyingly gruesome. I also loved Glenda Farrell's character - these old movies have so little female agency, it was cool to see the plot moved along by a woman who wouldn't take any shit or listen to a bunch of inept cops.

The effects were good, the acting was good. Crazy to find out this film was lost for nearly 50 years! Apparently the copy I have is some chimera of a few different, damaged copies found and spliced together by The Film Foundation in 2019. I guess some of the audio even had to be supplanted with lines from other movies?? Madness. I can't believe it played as coherently as it did under those circumstances

Fun fact I learned after watching: This movie was in color (two-tone red and green Technicolor), but audiences apparently didn't like it, and so Warner Brothers decided going forward that color movies were a fad and not worth investing in! 🤪

also now my brother and I can't stop staying to each other "I'm gonna make you eat DIRT, you SOAP BUBBLE"

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Roger Corman plans his horror return with A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) starring Dick Miller and Barboura Morris! This MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM remake brings in the scariest beastie of them all... Beatniks!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 44:11; Discussion 58:26; Ranking 1:16:19

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[chrisitsraining]

okayokayokay if you like house of wax from 2005 and then decided to go back and watch the 1953 version PLEASE share your thoughts

and/or if you watched mystery of the wax museum from 1933

i wanna hear

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