House Of Wax

House Of Wax by Jaume Collet-Serra

Synopsis

In 1974, a woman is making a wax sculpture in the kitchen while her son eats breakfast in his highchair. Her husband enters with another son who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place by his father. After being strapped and taped to his chair, he scratches his mother's hand. She then slaps her child across the face.

In 2005, six teenagers named Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Nick (Chad Michael Murray), Wade (Jared Padalecki), Paige (Paris Hilton), Blake (Robert Ri'chard) and Dalton (Jon Abrahams) are on their way to a highly anticipated football game in Louisiana. Night falls and the group decides to set up camp for the night. The campsite is later visited by a stranger in a pickup truck who shines his lights at the campsite, but refuses to leave or address them until Nick smashes a headlight with a bottle. The next morning, Carly and Paige go exploring, Carly falls down a hill and lands in deer remains and sees a fake hand. One of the cars fan belts is found to be damaged. The group meets a disheveled, rural man named Lester (Damon Herriman), who offers to drive Carly and Wade to the nearby town of Ambrose to get a new fan belt, while the rest of them go to the football game.

The two arrive at Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. Unable to find an attendant at the auto mechanics shop, they wander into the church, disrupting a funeral. There, they meet a mechanic named Bo (Brian Van Holt), who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While waiting for the services to end, Carly and Wade visit the wax museum, which itself is made of wax and is the central feature of the town. Afterward, they follow Bo to his house to find a proper fan belt. While there, Wade is knocked out by Vincent (also played by Brian Van Holt) and Bo grabs Carly, super glues her lips shut and locks her in a cellar. Dalton and Nick arrive in Ambrose to look for Carly and Wade; Vincent meanwhile starts to cover Wade in wax.

While Nick questions Bo if he has seen his sister, Carly tries signaling for help by sticking her finger out of a vent, trying to get her brothers attention. Bo notices her finger sticking out and leans down by the vent while still talking to Nick and snips the tip of her finger off. Carly falls screaming in pain and later pries her lips open in order to scream for help. Nick, hearing her screams, knocks Bo out after he attacks him. Nick locks Bo out of the station and finds his sister and the two escape. Dalton finds Wade who is alive but he is unable to move or talk because he is immobilized by a layer of wax covering his body. Dalton peels off the wax but realizes he is peeling Wade's skin off. Vincent finds Dalton and accidentally slashes Wade's face with a powersaw. Wade dies from shock. Vincent later chases and decapitates Dalton, killing him. Meanwhile, Nick and Carly realize that the wax figures are actually real people - Bo and Vincent have been trapping people in wax in order for the figures to look more realistic.

Vincent goes to their camp site and kills Blake and chases Paige to an abandoned sugar mill. After being stabbed in the foot, Paige hides in a car but Vincent finds her but she impales him in the cheek with a spear and flees. Paige hides behind a car but Vincent throws a spear through the windows of the car which impales her forehead, killing her instantly. Carly and Nick overhear Bo and Vincent talking and discovers that they were conjoined twins. Bo and Vincent find and chase Carly and Nick to the House of Wax. Nick and Carly unintentionally set the House of Wax on fire. As this is occurring, the wax figures start to melt, as does the whole house. Carly beats Bo to death with a baseball bat, which enrages Vincent. Vincent chases Nick and Carly on to the balcony but Carly and Nick stab Vincent in the hip, thus killing him. As the House of Wax melts from the fire, the room in which all three are in collapses, causing Vincent to land on Bo's corpse. Nick and Carly escape the fiery House of Wax and breathlessly watch as it melts to the ground.

The ambulance and police arrive at daybreak, reporting that Ambrose has been abandoned for ten years when the local sugar mill failed. The policeman (Andy Anderson) reveals that there was a third son of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair who happens to be Lester. Nick and Carly are then taken to hospital. From inside the ambulance, Carly looks at Lester who is smiling at her.(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wax_(2005_film) )

Blues 的评语：

总的来说，我认为还不错，而且因为内容较新奇的关系，所以还蛮吸引眼球的。有一个部分，也就是Wade去到Bo的家的时候，他看到有一个类似是deer还是羊的死胎还是标本什么的被放进一个罐子，然后他拿来看，还发出超cute的声音，这个部分我认为Wade演得还不错。还有一个部分是他“玩”钢琴的部分，我认为也不错。还有一个部分，是Carly被Bo关在地下室的部分。Carly伸出她的食指要让Nick注意到她，而Nick没有看到，反而却被Bo看到，她的食指还被剪断。这个部分感觉有点奇怪，但是我又说不上来哪里奇怪。而且，再说，血水能把万能胶给溶了吗？就算能，以她的失血程度来看，她过后应该会蛮虚弱了吧！而她把被剪断的食指放靠近嘴唇来使万能胶溶掉的时候，这个部分演得有点怪，也有点假。不过，我认为这部戏因为有了那“前戏”和Vincent、Bo和Lester这三兄弟，而有了点悬疑的味道。整体来说，我认为这是一部很不错的片子。

我会给它三粒半的星级吧！它将获得Medal 4。