Movie Review - House of Wax (remake)

OK, yes it's a film with Paris Hilton in it. Don't let that put you off, she's hardly in the film at all.
The film involves Robert Zemikis (Back To The Future, Gremlins) and Joel Silver (Gothika, The Matrix, Ghost Ship) so you know it's going to be half decent. Take a bunch of clean cut looking college students who are trying to get to a football game. That really isn't important because they are never going to get there.

Apart from Paris Hilton, I don't know any of the rest of the cast. Take the idea from the original 1950's Vincent Price version of House Of Wax. A bad person is catching people and turning them into wax statues by coating them in wax while they are still alive. Except this is 2 brothers. Who you later find out were Siamese or conjoined twins. What you are also told is that 2 of the group of students are also twins but they are brother and sister.

The entire House Of Wax is actually made of wax and is destroyed at the end of the movie, and that sequence looks stunning. The students that are killed all get fairly convincing looking deaths. The movie also makes use of Paris Hilton's notoriety and her "sex movie scandals" with the use of the video camera to catch her doing things that look like they are sexual but prove to be totally innocent. On the whole the film looks excellent, but runs a little slow in places. Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised that you like it like I was.