Reviews of Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933
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Mystery of the Wax Museum is for sure an interesting piece of movie making. The imagery in this horror movie is really cool, helped by the 2-strip Technicolor and live people as wax figures. Lionel Atwill is the creepy wax-maker and as always he's perfect at home in these kinds of roles.
Fay Wray was the lady in distress did her thing, but the real lady of the movie was Glenda Farrell as the drunken quick-mouthed reporter. Farrell stole all… -
A great little gem of a movie, not to be confused with the Vincent Price remake. Missing from the remake is the wisecracking reporter played by Glenda Farrell. She's fantastic, and what makes this movie worth rewatching for me.
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I wrote about Mystery of the Wax Museum here: 31nightsofterror.blogspot.com/2012/10/night-of-terror-6-mystery-of-wax-museum.html
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An undercooked affair being neither very mysterious or very horrific. Most notable for its early color film process than for any real intrinsic value. Not terrible, but entirely skippable.
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It's a pity that this film was as hurried and bitty as it was; a little more time and care would have turned this into a really rather good early 1930s horror. It's worth watching if you like pre-Code films - this one slipped in enough naughty comments to make this non-expert think that after the full implementation of the Hays Code some of it wouldn't have been thought acceptable.
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great camp fun - and a few genuinely creepy scenes