#the mystery of the wax museum

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Happy birthday Scream queen and early film icon Fay Wray! Here's some fan art inspired by King Kong and The Vampire Bat to celebrate!

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

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MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)

Dir. Michael Curtiz

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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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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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SUMMARY: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

The mod hasn't seen this movie, but if she's being honest, the 50s remake House of Wax looks better. That being said, a lot of 30s horror (beyond the Universal monsters) doesn't interest her that much.

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With most of the classic monster movies I’m watching, I’m getting pretty much what I expected from years of pop culture references and derivatives - but I think The Mummy (1932) has lost the most over the years in terms of plot and the character of Imhotep himself. All I knew going in was “guy in bandages stumbling around with his arms out going WAUUGHHH”. I didn’t expect him to be a soft-spoken, cunning and even somewhat sympathetic villain trying to resurrect the lover he defied the gods for. Boris Karloff really had an incredible knack for making monsters human.

This was also the first of these Really Old horror movies I’ve seen where (spoilers I guess) the female lead is the one to defeat the monster. Sure, she spends most of the movie acting like the same copy-paste damsel in distress slash love interest, but it was cool to finally see one actually fight back instead of just fainting and leaving it to the man to solve lol. Or getting killed off!! (Looking at you, Jekyll & Hyde)

I’m really enjoying these Pre-Code movies. Makes me sad we had to go through 50+ years of ridiculous Catholic-church-backed censorship after that.

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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)