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Zach Galligan (Actor), Deborah Foreman (Actor), Anthony Hickox (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
3.9 out of 5 stars 27 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, Miles O'Keeffe, David Warner
  • Directors: Anthony Hickox
  • Producers: Steffan Ahrenberg
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Sept. 2007
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000HN31IS
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,105 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Six teenagers visit a wax museum at midnight, where they find themselves drawn back in time and into the murderous scenarios that have been dramatised in wax. To get in is free but to get out...

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In Waxwork a waxwork museum appears overnight in an American small town and sinister showman David Warner invites a group of typical teens to a midnight party. However, as expected, the place is home to nasty secrets, and the blundering kids find themselves transported via the exhibits into the presence of "the 18 most evil men in history". What this means is that the film gets to trot out gory vignettes featuring such horror staples as Count Dracula (played inaptly with designer stubble and a Clint croak by ex-Tarzan Miles O'Keefe), the Marquis de Sade, an anonymous werewolf with floppy bunny ears (John Rhys-Davies in human form) and the Mummy. Nerdy hero Zach Galligan appeals to wheelchair-bound monster fighter Patrick MacNee for help. Waxwork is strictly a film buff's movie--with Warner and MacNee turning in knowingly camp performances, and references to everything from Crimes of Passion to Little Shop of Horrors cluttering up its very straggly story line. It's not without ragged charms, though the tone veers between comic and sick (the de Sade scene, although inexplicit, features some lurid dialogue) more or less at random. The effects are likewise variable, and in any case rather fudged by direction, which frequently fails to point up the gags properly. It winds up with a scrappy Blazing Saddles-style fight between the forces of Good and a whole pack of monsters, and the budget runs out before the climactic burning-down-the-waxworks scene. The episodic approach echoes the old Amicus omnibus horrors (Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The House that Dripped Blood etc.), and various cameos allow director Anthony Hickox to parody/emulate the styles of Hammer films, Night of the Living Dead and Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.

On the DVD: It's a nice-looking and sounding print, but fullscreen format. The only extras are filmographies taken from the IMDB and the trailer.--Kim Newman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 starsMemory plays tricks.
By M. Crossman on 19 Sept. 2012
Format: DVD
I remember seeing this at the cinema during the 80's and enjoying it immensely.
Time, however, has not been too kind to this film.
Whilst it is still enjoyable the hairstyles and clothes firmly make it a film of the past and this distracts somewhat (well, it did distract my Wife who was watching it for the first time).
Yet the film still has some enjoyable moments.
Not the greatest transfer ever seen on DVD but then again I did not expect much else.
A step up from the VHS transfer, that's for sure.
Fun if your in an forgiving mood.
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3.0 out of 5 starsMonster mash-up in wax.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 18 April 2014
Format: DVD
Waxwork is written and directed by Anthony Hickox. It stars Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Dana Ashbrook, Miles O’Keefe, Patrick Macnee and John Rhys-Davies. Music is by Roger Bellon and cinematography by Gerry Lively.

A sort of portmanteau horror film made on a TV standard budget. Plot in simple terms has a bunch of pretty young adults unwisely accept an invite to visit the mysterious new wax museum that has suddenly appeared in town: At midnight! What follows is a number of stories that find members of the group magically transported into the realm of an exhibit, such as werewolf, vampire etc, and end up as part of the exhibit themselves. Can the hero in waiting save the day?

It’s a fun homage of a movie, playing very much firmly with tongue in cheek. The presence of some horror stalwarts in the cast is reassuring, and the effects work isn’t half bad. Some of the acting is poor from the younger cast members, and while it’s not hard to forgive a low budgeted movie its failings, it’s still annoying that the actors playing the wax models can’t keep still, while the set nearly falls down at one point. The photography is also too cloudy at times, Gerry Lively’s filters straining for colour ambiance.

Still, it’s a decent time filler that’s made with love by a horror fan for horror fans. 5/10
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe other review
By A Customer on 1 Oct. 2003
Format: DVD
The only reason I am writing this review is because I disagree with the other review. Though not a classic, I thought that this film was really good fun and it is one of the horror films I remember from my youth . Its also good solid horror with a decent and nicely cheesy story. The sequel (Waxwork 2: Lost in Time) is good also and very funny in places with some interesting cameos.
So check them out cos they are good fun and worth a look.
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4.0 out of 5 starsTHAT'S GOTTA HURT
By The Movie Guy on 28 April 2013
Format: DVD
College age kids go to a wax museum by special invitation. The museum has 18 scenes of horror. Of course the first thing they do is split up. If one gets too close to an exhibit, they enter a portal into said exhibit. The exhibits include vampire, mummy, werewolf, zombies, and Marquis De Sade. About midway through we discover that the exhibits will all come to life and roam the Earth once someone has been killed in each one.

The movie is campy. The plot and cheesy effects reminded me of "Saturday the 14th" a spoof I consider superior to this one. The dialouge was not conducive to a decent proof. The film strained to be funny. This is only for 80's horror fans. Try not to laugh at the werewolf mask too much.

This film is currently making the rounds on multi-pack horror DVDs.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWaxwork (1988)
By The Scribbler on 19 Feb. 2015
Format: DVD
I am going to give a brief synopsis of both Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time in this review, mainly for the readers who might be interested in looking into purchasing the sequel. Those who are not, just skip the second paragraph.

Waxwork (1988) is a horror film written and directed by Anthony Hickox, who is also known for Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992). Six students - Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan), China Webster (Michelle Johnson), Sarah Brightman (Deborah Foreman), Gemma (Clare Carey), James (Eric Brown) and Tony (Dana Ashbrook) - walk past a wax museum owned by the Waxwork Man (David Warner) on the way to high school and decide to take a look inside. They find a number of well-known macabre and bloody set pieces including Count Dracula (Miles O'Keefe), The Phantom of the Opera, the Marquis de Sade (J Kenneth Campbell), and The Wolfman (John Rhys -Davies). Each ventures beyond the ropes into a set piece of their choice and find themselves in a waxwork world come to life and part of the story being portrayed. They then find themselves randomly teleporting from the wax museum into the waxwork worlds and vice versa.

Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) is the sequel to the above also written and directed by Hickox. The film begins where the first one finished (I won't go into to many character descriptions here to save any spoilers). Suffice to say that the characters in this one again enter become part of the mysterious waxwork worlds which include homages to Alien, Dawn of the Dead, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack the Ripper, and Nosferatu.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsTake a closer look....
By Corey Newcombe on 23 Jan. 2014
Format: DVD
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time.

After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.

What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in it......

Back in the day, this was one of those bizarre horror movies that you caught on TV and never saw again.

There were very few scenes I remember, but I remember I loved the film and it's sequel. Finally getting a chance to see it again, the rose tinted specs did not help the fact that's found this a little too average.

The references to 'something wicked this way comes' are rife throughout, and all I see in Galligan is Billy Peltzer acting the pathetic fool.

It's a very bizarre movie, with great make up and cheap sets, but it redeems itself come the finale with its bonkers fight between old men and titular characters.

After seeing this finale again, I really wonder how original Joss Whedon is, because it's so much like 'Cabin in the Woods'.

All in all, it's average stuff with a couple of good scenes, but nothing special.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsGood fun.

I remember watching this a long time ago and thoroughly enjoying it. I still love it now however the last 20 minutes or so are completely rubbish. It feels a bit lazy.

Published 4 months ago by Dolly Day Dream
3.0 out of 5 starsAlso Patrick Macnee and David Warner pop up so whats not to like....

As previously said by others this has not aged well. However there is still a decent film underneath. Also Patrick Macnee and David Warner pop up so whats not to like. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mr R P Smith
4.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant

Anthony Hickox the Director of this does wonders on A small Budget.Given that this is Set in a Waxworks House of Horrors where each exhibit drags the spectator making them part of... Read more

Published 8 months ago by Mrs. D. Moncrieff
4.0 out of 5 starsWaxwork

I recently watched this on the Horror Channel and really liked it. I know its not going to win any Oscars and the special F/X are a bit naff but I found it a good watch. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Nicola Power
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Cult film.

Published 11 months ago by Dexter 24
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Old film but love it

Published 17 months ago by Justin J.
5.0 out of 5 starsGood laugh and not too bad special FX

Good laugh and not too bad special FX. Sequel is so so I believe. Waxwork UK R2 is uncut by the way.

Published 20 months ago by Doc.B
1.0 out of 5 starsAwful Film.

The most awful film I have purchased. I turned it off after about 20 minutes. It is boring and takes too long to get in to it.

Published 21 months ago by Corinna Taylor Dance In The Rain
3.0 out of 5 starsIt gets better

For the first half of this film I was contemplating turning it off. It was the acting that got me. I know you should never expect Oscar-worthy performances from slasher films,... Read more

Published on 24 Oct. 2013 by Albatross
5.0 out of 5 starsToo service

Received the DVD really fast and in good condition,a classic film which still looks good if not a little cheesy.

Published on 17 May 2013 by Paul

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