An old newspaper article leads them to Grandpa’s adventurer friend Sir Wilfred (Patrick Macnee, THE HOWLING), who explains that Lincoln made a deal with the Devil and is trying to capture 18 people in wax to resurrect “the most evil souls that have ever been” – which I guess means Dracula and the werewolf and shit were real people? I don’t know. It turns out Mark was destined for that because his grandfather was murdered by David Lincoln (the waxwork guy) 50 years ago and has related artifacts in his attic. Mark and Sarah can’t find everybody else so they leave, and officially become the protagonists. The highlight of her Dracula adventure is when she finds her non-existent fiancee Charles (Tom MacGreevey, HAPPY ENDINGS) chained to a table with one leg chewed carved down to the bone and a rat nibbling on it. Then it crushes his skull and tears him apart like two sides of an extra gooey grilled cheese sandwich.Ĭhina ends up in a castle, wearing a fancy dress, and sits down at a table with Dracula (Miles O’Keeffe, SWORD OF THE VALIANT) and his wives for a meal of raw meat in blood sauce. You get that sense from the opening scene (some guy gets his head shoved into a lit fireplace) and it continues here when a hunter breaks a chair over the werewolf and it cockily brushes its shoulder off.
It’s all a little cheesy looking, but gets some energy from Hickox’s above average enthusiasm for gore and mayhem. Tony first theorizes that China “put acid in my drink – again,” then that it’s a hologram, then hypnosis.
For example, Tony ends up as a long-hair guy in a cabin where John Rhys-Davies (FIREWALKER) transforms into a werewolf. They separate and wander around the waxwork, which has wax dummies (many very obviously just people in makeup trying to stand still) posed in violent tableaus, and if they get too close to the displays they’re transported to other dimensions where the scenes are real and they become characters in them.
WAXWORKS 2 MOVIE
WAXWORK is not quite an anthology, but it’s an odd mix of different types of movies, using the characters in a wax museum as excuses to visit different dated horror subgenres.Ĭollege students China (Michelle Johnson, BEAKS: THE MOVIE) and Sarah (Deborah Foreman, REAL GENIUS) notice a wax museum in a residential area (“Kind of a weird place to have a waxwork” – I like how this movie acts like “waxwork” is a totally normal word everybody knows and uses casually.) A strange man (David Warner, TRON) appears and invites them to return at midnight with no more than six people for “a private showing.” So they convinced their friends Gemma (Clare Carey, ZOMBIE HIGH), James (Eric Brown, Mama’s Family), Tony (Dana Ashbrook, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II) and Mark (Zach Galligan, who had only done GREMLINS and NOTHING LASTS FOREVER) to come with them. A very small, light dot on the map, but it’s on there if you squint. My first association for the younger Hickox is always HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH, but WAXWORK is what put him on the horror/cult movie map. Coates ( LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT) and director Douglas Hickox (who directed one of my favorite Vincent Prince movies, THEATRE OF BLOOD). WAXWORK (1988) is an American movie, but it’s the debut of English writer/director Anthony Hickox, the son of legendary editor Anne V.
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