Credits
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production companies
Village Roadshow Pictures
Dark Castle Entertainment
Directed by
Jaume Collet-Serra
Written by
Chad Hayes
Carey Hayes
Based on "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden
Produced by
Joel Silver
Robert Zemeckis
Susan Levin
Cinematography
Stephen F. Windon
Edited by
Joel Negron
Music by
John Ottman
Synopsis
Siblings Carly and Nick Jones, with their friends Wade, Paige, Blake, and Dalton Chapman are on their way to a football game in Louisiana. The night before the game, they camp in a field. A stranger in a pickup truck arrives, then leaves when Nick smashes one of his headlights. The next morning, Wade discovers that his car's fan belt is broken and Carly falls into a pit of rotting animal carcasses. After rescuing her, the group meets Lester, who drives Carly and Wade to the nearby town of Ambrose for a new fan belt while the rest head to the football game. Carly and Wade arrive in Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. They find a funeral in progress at the church and meet Bo Sinclair, who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While waiting, they visit "Trudy's House of Wax", a wax museum which is itself made of wax and the central feature of the town. They follow Bo to his house where his twin brother Vincent, whose wax mask covers the facial disfigurement where the twins were once conjoined, cripples Wade and knocks him unconscious. Carly sees Bo's truck has a broken headlight and realizes it was he who visited the campsite. Bo restrains Carly in the gas station cellar and glues her lips shut. Vincent covers Wade's body in molten wax. Realizing they will not arrive at the game in time, Paige and Blake return to the campsite while Nick and Dalton look for Carly and Wade in the town. When Carly tries to alert Nick, Bo cuts off her finger tip but she tears her lips apart and screams for help. Nick fends off Bo and frees Carly while Dalton finds Wade trapped in his wax coating. Dalton tries to peel the wax from Wade's face, inadvertently removing his skin in the process. Vincent ambushes Dalton as he slashes off a section of Wade's face, causing him to die from shock, before decapitating Dalton. Carly and Nick realize the wax figures are actually the wax-coated corpses of visitors lured into town. Vincent kills Blake at the campsite and chases Paige into an abandoned sugar mill, where he kills her with a metal pipe through her forehead. Bo and Vincent chase Carly and Nick into the House of Wax. Nick unintentionally starts a fire in the museum workshop, causing it and the figures to start melting. Bo and Nick battle and Nick is stabbed in the leg before Carly beats Bo to death with a baseball bat. Vincent chases Carly to the top floor where she tries to reason with him over his brother's treachery and, with Nick's help, is able to stab him in the back. A dead Vincent falls through the floor and lands on top of Bo's corpse while Carly and Nick escape as the building melts to the ground. The next morning, the police arrive and report that Ambrose had been abandoned for ten years since the sugar mill shut down. As Nick and Carly are driven away by ambulance, Carly spots the Sinclair's third son Lester Sinclair waving them goodbye with the Sinclairs' family dog.
28 авг 2024
