The Wax Mask

The Wax Mask

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Release Date

4/4/1997

Runtime

98 mins

Overview

Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A gothic-tinged slasher where a wax museum becomes a tomb for the killer's victims, blending body-horror spectacle with the creeping dread of not knowing who might be real and who might be wax.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedTense

Themes

ObsessionRevengeMortality

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Steady

Look

Stylized genreHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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