Waxwork
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Short description
A new wax museum opens in town, and its owner invites groups of teenagers to visit at no charge. Inside, the exhibits recreate macabre crime scenes and gruesome figures drawn from horror and history, including Dracula, the Marquis de Sade and the Phantom of the Opera. Mark, a wealthy young man, comes with his girlfriend Sarah and their friends. When his ex-girlfriend and another friend vanish after crossing the ropes around the displays, Mark grows suspicious and starts to investigate what the museum really is. What the visitors take for lifeless wax turns out to have a purpose of its own.
Anthony Hickox wrote and directed the film, his first turn behind the camera and the beginning of a run that continued with Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Warlock: The Armageddon and later titles. Zach Galligan leads as Mark, with Deborah Foreman as Sarah, Michelle Johnson, Jennifer Bassey and Joe Baker among the credited cast, and David Warner as the Waxwork Man. The production was international, mounted across Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, with 54 credited cast members and 126 credited crew.
Made for about 3 million dollars, the film mixes comedy with horror. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 4.6 out of 10 from 10 reviews, while on TMDB its audience rating stands at 6.2 out of 10 from 340 votes, a gap suggesting viewers responded more warmly than reviewers did. It runs 97 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Anthony Hickox wrote the screenplay in 3 days.
- Special effects artist Bob Keen worked 18 hours a day for eight weeks creating the monsters for the film.
- The scene with the zombies was filmed at night in an ordinary park.
- In the film's script, the circus freak Cobra Man, locked in a cage, was considered an animal.
- Once, right during filming, the prosthetic bridge holding the 'vampire fangs' of actor Christopher Bradley, who played the vampire Stefan, broke. To keep the shoot going, the resourceful actor simply attached the fangs to his teeth… with ordinary chewing gum.
- The phrase “Come on. Today is my day” is a quote from Clint Eastwood’s 1983 crime action thriller, *Sudden Impact*.
- According to the film crew, the basement scene in the vampire mansion was originally "the bloodiest scene ever to appear on screen." However, much of the on-screen "gore" had to be removed from the film to receive a milder rating.
- All the missing person posters we see in the film are copies of one of the posters seen in the opening credits sequence of Joel Schumacher's vampire horror comic book adaptation, "The Lost Boys" (1987).
- The scene in which Sarah throws the dwarf into the mouth of a plant that has just said, "Feed me," is a reference to Roger Corman's cult black comedy, "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960).
- The police detective says that 13 people have gone missing in the city over the past two weeks. Throughout the film, six become victims of the creatures: Tony (werewolf), China (vampire), China’s athlete friend (Phantom of the Opera), the detective (mummy), James (zombie), Gemma (Marquis de Sade). That makes a total of 19 victims, one more than required. It turns out that either the detective simply died at the hands of the mummy (as he does not appear in the final battle scene), or, more likely, the Museum had nothing to do with the disappearance of one of the thirteen mentioned by the detective.
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