
Weirdhouse Cinema: House of Wax (1953)
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The History of the Museum
Henry Jared had pretensions of keeping dignity and fine art as the purpose of his museum. So he has a gimmicky barker out front, get luring people in by taunting them. When he leads the tour, it is now all wax gore. He's quoting Shakespeare and making comments like, yes, and Berlin. And then he uses at one point, he uses a guillotine to decapitate a wax French aristocrat.
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