IMDB: 7.1 April 25, 1953 88 min Horror USA Andre De Toth Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni
House of Wax: Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit.
