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House of Wax is a 1953 American mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth and released by Warner Bros. A remake of the studio's own 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays.
While largely remembered as the director of the earliest and most successful 3D film, House of Wax, de Toth also directed the noir films Pitfall (1948) and Crime Wave (1954). [5] He later returned to the European film industry, mainly with Italian productions, and also directed the war action film Play Dirty starring Michael Caine and Nigel ...
She appeared with Vincent Price in the 3D horror film House of Wax (1953), the first major 3D movie. She co-starred as Frank Sinatra's love interest in the western he produced, Johnny Concho (1956). [7] She replaced Gloria Vanderbilt in the role a week before filming began. [8]
Pages in category "1953 3D films" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. ... House of Wax (1953 film) Hypnotic Hick; I. I, the Jury (1953 film) ...
House of Wax may refer to: a wax museum; House of Wax, a 1953 3D horror film starring Vincent Price; House of Wax, a 2005 horror film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray; House of Wax (EP), an EP by Insane Clown Posse "House of Wax", a song on the 2007 album Memory Almost Full by Paul McCartney
April 1953 saw two groundbreaking features in 3D: Columbia's Man in the Dark and Warner Bros.' House of Wax, the first 3D feature with stereophonic sound. House of Wax was (outside of Cinerama) the first time many American audiences heard recorded stereophonic sound; it was also the film that typecast Vincent Price as a horror star as well as ...
In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror-film roles with the leading role in House of Wax (1953) as a homicidal sculptor, [19] the first three-dimensional film to land in the year's top 10 at the North American box-office.
"The film is the first 3D color film in history, and its premiere just two days after Columbia Pictures's Man in the Dark, the first 3-D movie ever produced and released by a major studio, sparked a 3D film craze that would run through the sixties." This is inaccurate, and should have a cite anyways. Any claims to firsts should have cites.