House Of Wax

It’s Scary Season here on the pod and we have a double feature to frighten you this year, two classics of the screen that star the inimitable Vincent Price. The first is a true classic, that helped to launch a trend in film in the 50s and Price’s career as the King of the Horror Bs. The second is so bad it’s good --- a thriller that was even more impactful in its marketing than in its making, but still a lot of fun to watch. Plus, we have guest hosts to help dissect, laugh, and scream at this year’s selections.

 We’re starting with the 1953 classic House Of Wax, released by Warner Brothers and helmed by director Andre DeToth. Not only is it headlined by Price, in one of his best performances in horror, it’s stuffed with a veritable museum of great B picture actors, and a few who went on to better than B work. The backstory and reason for the artistic and commercial success of House Of Wax is fun and interesting in itself. It begins, as do many good scary movies, in the mists of the 1930s.

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