10 Horror Movie Remakes Better Than You Remember
3. House Of Wax (2005)
House of Wax is dumb. House of Wax is a movie where you get to see Paris Hilton impaled with a big spike and the man from Supernatural get his face peeled off. And, honestly, it's all the better for it.
The original Vincent Price horror would never really translate to the genre landscape of the early 2000s. That film, while a total hoot, is a complete camp-fest made first and foremost to exploit a 3D gimmick popular at the time.
It would have always needed extensive adapting to be taken seriously by an audience, and thankfully this remake only takes the barebones of the original story and grafts them onto something far nastier but just as fun.
Instead of Price's burned museum owner acting as the villain, here it's two twins who are kidnapping victims and turning them into the latest attractions of the titular building which, living up to its name fully, is made ENTIRELY out of wax.
It's a little slow in the first half, and it doesn't make a lick of sense, but it's a huge amount of fun if you can turn your brain off at the door.