Nightmare in Wax

11/28/2025

**_“House of Wax” reimagined for the late 60s with Cameron Mitchell_** Shot in late 1966, but not released until spring, 1969, this ‘B’ horror is different enough from Vincent Price’s more well-known flick to make it worthwhile. The modern-day setting distinguishes it from similar films, such as 1966’s “Chamber of Horrors.” It’s colorful, surprisingly inventive, and effectively captures the groovy late 1960s, particularly the go-go dancing sequence featuring The T-Bones, which brings to mind the contemporaneous “Corruption” wherein 54 years-old Peter Cushing goes to a ‘rad’ party. In the beauty department, there’s Anne Helm as protagonist Marie, Victoria Carroll as ditzy blonde Theresa and Mercedes Alberti as Stella in semi-suspended animation. More shoulda been done with them, bu