Synopsis
A killer is waiting... in the past, present and future.
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
1992 Directed by Anthony Hickox
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
Zach Galligan Monika Schnarre Martin Kemp Bruce Campbell Michael Des Barres Jim Metzler Sophie Ward Marina Sirtis Juliet Mills John Ireland Patrick Macnee David Carradine Alexander Godunov George Buck Flower James D.R. Hickox Stanley Sheff John O'Leary Maxwell Caulfield Shanna Lynn Anthony Hickox Harrison Young Frank Zagarino Gerry Lively Drew Barrymore Marie Foti Kate Murtagh Athena Massey Laurie Rose Stefanos Miltsakakis
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Godzilla as Himself
I don’t think there’s a way to adequately prepare yourself for this film’s end credits. You’ve just finished a campy b-movie and the second the credits start to roll you bare witness to a full length hip-hop music video that has the actors dancing through the various sets. Sometimes I have a hard time believing that’s actually how this film ends.
For a DTV sequel released years after the original, Waxwork II kicks a lot of ass.
Instead of there being, like, another evil wax museum there’s now a magic compass that transports them into various homages to other horror films. So it keeps the spirit of the…
Horror movies made by the Lawful Good for Paladin-Instruction/Morale-Boosting/Crusading-Purposes are just SO NOT MY THING. Waxwork was explicit about its alignment, but Waxwork II gets all Messianic/Manifest Destiny in its desire to view all of history as a war fought between Light And Darkness to impose White Cishet Late XXth Century USA on Everything, Everywhere, going out of its way to erase or annihilate its LGBTQIA characters, its monsters, its Black Magick-users, those into perversion or freakdom or BDSM, while thrilling to the mere contact with the forbidden even as it is being vanquished, vanished or obliterated. I cannot be down. I dig its cheap Alien knockoff, having seen so many, this is hardly the worst, and many of the…
nooo u cant make the waxwork sequel a low-energy scifi ripoff of unrelated movies w/ no waxworks besides insane production design, visibly confused zack galligan and a weird s&m pure moods dungeon fantasy sequence that feels like it goes for 3 hrs!!!--split diopter go [ _o/ | (o.o ) ]
Unspeakably bad wigs, halfhearted homages, and the most nonsensical "plot" I've seen all spooky season come together in the regrettable, hollowed out extension of the wonderful Waxwork. At least we get more Zach Galligan.
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🌜Daily Horror Hunt #27 (Sept. 2020)🌛
🎃Hooptober Se7en🎃
Picking up right where Waxwork left off, Waxwork II leans so much harder into the wackiness, hopping through horror time 'n' space with an onslaught of zany, slapstick FUN! Just a gory 'n' gross, adventurous, creature filled romp paying homage to SO many horror flicks, and featuring SO many cameos. Excessive as heck, but man, I love it!
Bruce Campbell does his riff on a black 'n' white The Haunting spin (that ribcage scene just GOES, so good!). Alien antics in outer space, some Frankenstein gothic goodness, a bit of Nosferatu, and a Dawn of the Dead mall hop that I really wish could've gone on longer. Sadly, while all those takes…
Day 18
31 Days of Halloween Marathon
HORRORx52 (2021)
Progress: 41/52
3. A film released in the year you were born
Unfortunately goes down the sequel path of biting off more than it could chew. I honestly have no clue what the plot of this movie was. For the 1st act I was into it…then it went downhill fast. It’s such a shame as Waxwork became an instant favorite for me when I recently watched it. This was much more of a goofy comedy with slight horror elements throughout. The 3rd act where it became a fantasy film was the final nail in the coffin. Just too much going on for it to make any sense. For the majority of…
Anthony Hickox really knows his way around a bonkers sequel.
He happened to direct the first Waxwork too and that film is much more legit, the kind of move I'd safely recommend to casual horror fans or as a double feature with The Gate. Safe, sturdy, and a ton of fun.
This one takes the concept of the first one and instead of having the characters enter into different worlds based on horror tropes they're now travelling across time into horror parodies. Yeah it's kind of an eye roller.
So it's way more of a comedy, but also way more ridiculous and nonsensical. As a direct continuation from the first film, we watch as Mark and Sarah travel through corny…
Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt - July 2019
Day 30 - in which we watch a horror film with a killer body part...
We switch gears from horror stories to movie references, with Zach Galligan and Monika Schnarre (as Debra Foreman) continuing to fight the forces of darkness.
Following the events of the previous film, our lovebirds return to a very different world – we seem to have gone from the suburbs of middle America to lofts in L.A. Unfortunately a murderous severed hand also survived the wax museum, and no sooner do you lament George Buck Flowers falling off the wagon (who knew), then you lament his passing as well. With the jury not buying the killer hand defence, it…
My 2016 October Horror List (aka Why I'm Extremely Pale in October)
Movie #67
I know Deborah Foreman didn't really have a ton to do in the last movie but she was still Deborah Foreman. Now we get her replaced by Monika Schnarre? This movie was not starting out well for me....
I thought the first Waxwork movie was going for crazy but never actually found it. This one hit crazy, went on to ridiculous, circled back around to boring and annoying, spent some time hanging with hilarious (Bruce Campbell!!!!) and silly and ended back on on crazy. Just in time for a rap video ending credits. Everything was...more this time. More blood, the vignettes are longer, more involved (sometimes way too long), more bad jokes, more references, more bad hair, more uncomfortable sexual references.....This thing was all over the place.
Why didn't anyone tell me that there's like 20 minutes in this movie that is just an Evil Dead movie set in the '50s?????
Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt 4 - October 2018
Day 13: A movie with the word “time” in the title.
This feels a little like a lost Doctor Who Halloween special that was directed by Sam Raimi and produced by Charles Band, if Raimi was just phoning it in.
Anthony Hickox is my surprise of the year in my discovery of a director thanks again Brett Petersel this gem of a horror comedy is exactly the same quality as the 1st Waxwork ( My review) and he's simply a genius, once again paying homage to classic films with his own unique personality and even more epic scenes.
Monika Schnarre dressed as Ellen Ripley who slaughters an Alien which, even if it's a parody, has a very cool design, Bruce Campbell's cameo in a scene revisited from Alfred Hitchcock when he gets eaten by a hawk while taking a huge closet in the head, and Godzilla who looks like Snoop Dog with his nose that smokes, all this is only…