WAXWORK (1988)
Director: Anthony
Hickox
Notable Cast: Zach
Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, Dana Ashbrook, Micah Grant, Eric
Brown, Clare Carey, David Warner, Patrick Macnee, Mihaly Mexzaros, Charles
McCaughan, Miles O’Keeffe, John Rhys-Davies, Edward Ashley
A film like Waxwork
can only have come from an era as overzealous as the 80s horror film scene.
Seriously. While the approach to its style and tone may not be for everyone, it
does make for a film that’s relentlessly quirky and, for all intents and
purposes, loud. In this manner, the film is exponentially fun. There is no
subtlety to this film whatsoever as it goes about telling its tale of a haunted
wax work museum and the youths that are being tormented by it. The structure of
the film allows it to do plenty of fun “side stories” as the various
protagonists are zapped into the scenes and have to fight off a variety of
monsters or villains and it gives director Hickox a chance to show off some
great practical effects and the strange sense of over the top humor he likes to
inject into his films. In this regard, Waxwork is a full blown hilarious and
entertaining time at the movies.
