![]() Dana Ashbrook appears before the day of "Twin Peaks". Great comedy, great horror, great 80s film. These things never happened, so how can they have real relics? But you know what? It is so much fun, you just ignore things like this (especially compared to the complete nonsense plot of the sequel or "House II".) Recommended? Heck yeah. Yet, there are sculptures of The Fly, the Invisible Man, and a scene from a zombie film. Then there is the bit about the sculptures needing relics from their real-life bodies to become alive. Not only does this make little sense, but there is no reason the man telling the story should know anything about it. I mean, there is a part where the origin of the museum is explained. I could complain about the really odd plot and lack of sense. The midget is cute, one of the kids is just weird and you should hear the way Dracula says "steak tartar" or the scene where the AARP (old people) raid the place. You will get a girl sexually aroused by being flogged (sado-masochism goes hand in hand with horror). You will get spraying blood, mutilated flesh, and a dismembered hand that lives on its own (see "Waxwork II" for more on this and its connection to "Evil Dead II"). This film is brilliant because of the perfect combination of horror and comedy. Well, the museum offers a portal to each of these horrible worlds - but if you die in the portal, you die in real life and become part of the museum. Dracula, the Marquis de Sade, a werewolf, the mummy, and nine other nasties. The film stars the kid from "Gremlins" and his group of friends who encounter the guy from "The Omen", who along with a midget and a Lurch-like butler manage a wax museum full of horrible characters. Going on to make a Warlock movie and a Hellraiser film, he has established himself (though still remains under-appreciated). This movie was his first time as a writer and director and he did it perfectly. "Can't a girl get laid around here without being burned at the stake?" Let me start by saying Anthony Hickox is a brilliant man. ![]() The wax models could be distinctly heard sizzling”.In a small suburban town, a group of college students visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Those who witnessed the fire described it in the Guardian: “Strong red and golden flames leapt 50 feet from the roof of the building. A large number of others ended up melted or burnt. A large proportion of waxworks were displayed beyond repair. The Madame Tussaud’s Fireĭuring the spring of 1925, a blaze broke out in the already iconic museum. Tussaud had even created a waxwork in her likeness and this still exists to this day. She would recreate the corpses of guillotined noblemen and ended up displaying them in her museum.Īll in all, the original museum boasted around 400 waxwork figurines of celebrities and notorious criminals alike. Tussaud, French by birth, actually began making wax models in a major way during the French revolution. She would recreate the corpses of guillotined noblemen and ended up displaying them in her museum.Īlmost as famous as the museum itself was the infamous “Chamber of Horrors” located within its walls. Almost as famous as the museum itself was the infamous “Chamber of Horrors” located within its walls. She lived on Baker Street (yep, the very same that the fictional Sherlock Holmes lived on) and opened her museum nearby. Madame ‘Marie’ Tussaud had opened the museum in 1835. On the 23rd March, a fire of epic proportions broke out at the Madame Tussaud’s waxwork museum in central London. It shows a number of the surviving waxworks and in some cases, parts of waxworks. My interest piqued, this definitely called for a little more research! Well, as it turns out, that one original photo was just the beginning. I’m thinking that the surviving mannequins of the Madame Tussaud’s fire might actually be scarier than those traditional turnips I covered a few months ago… The claim? That the picture was of the Madame Tussaud’s Fire in 1925.Īnd just one look at the picture is enough to give me nightmares. But I digress… When looking at aforementioned scary wax figure pictures earlier this afternoon, I stumbled on the most unusual picture. But I guess that they’re just a little too realistic for my liking…Īnd this irrational fear has only been compounded by a recently watched horror film where the victims were embalmed in wax. I don’t know what it is, but I find wax-work figures more than a little creepy. I have a confession to make: I’ve never actually stepped foot in Madame Tussauds. ![]() Last Updated on 13th February 2022 by Sophie Nadeau ![]()
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