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(1 - 39) of 39 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1   2/4 "...I would've enjoyed a modern-day spin on the insane curator story rather than a wax-covered rehashing of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari B "This is a well-made film with a lot more gore than you're expecting and a lot less humor than you're expecting."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4/10 "Cruelty to stupid characters isn’t disturbing, it’s just condescending. And being mean for mean’s sake is an empty enterprise, in my book."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens B+ "This Wax is more junk food quality, skipping along inside its traditional horror trappings with eagerness and a rare lack of cynicism or pale ghost children."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Most alarming, the movie leaves open the possibility of a sequel. "   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "Melts in your brain, not in your hand (or is that it melts your brain?)"   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1/5 "When I wasn’t laughing at the asinine plot developments or the ridiculously inept acting, I was straining to stay awake."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 0/4 "Such a vile and despicable heap of trash that I pity any lucid person who will actually pay decent money to sit through it."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1.5/4 "...dominated by long, unnecessarily prolonged sequences in which the various characters are either poking around where they shouldn't or hiding from a deformed maniac."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3.5/4 "Scary, scream-and-squirm-inducing, and suspenseful, it's the first unequivocally good--and often downright great--popcorn entertainment of the still-early summer movie season."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "That's hot."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez D+ "Paris Hilton is the least of the film's problems, and when Paris Hilton is the least of your problems, you know you're in trouble."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "It’s sad that the film had to place Hilton front & center with a video camera joke, then a BJ gag before finally having a large phallic object go right through her face."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "More gleeful, more deliciously sick, and cleverer than most."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "...a throwaway thriller...Serra conjures up a pseudo-sizzling frightfest that’s not imaginative enough to force a dead tick off a shaggy dog’s hind leg."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "Though this is a step up from the usual teen snuff-movie fare, it still very much wanes more than it waxes."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "A horror movie can get away with a lot, but once it crosses a certain line, it is insulting to viewers. House of Wax crosses that line."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Not a classic by any means, but satisfactory in the basics of the genre."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 5/10 "House of Wax aims low and hits the mark. It has all the gory bloodshed you could ask for and all the right special effects."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1.5/4 "Mal actuada, mal editada, previsible de principio a fin y sin terror alguno de por medio, es una de esas cintas que deberían haberse quedado en la fase de proyecto."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 2/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.0/4.0 "... doesn’t look down upon its target audience... House both treats and terrorizes while legitimizing itself next to other slasher classics."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 0/5 "Not to focus too much on Paris Hilton, but she brings an art to bad acting."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B "2005's House of Wax turns out to be a better reimagining of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" than last year's lousy remake"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "It delivers some bracingly nasty gore scenes, but there's no spark left in the run-scream-repeat formula, and a movie whose biggest draw is profoundly untalented hotel-fortune heiress Paris Hilton is in desperate need of some juice."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh B- "House of Wax's violence is abrupt and gory, giving it an ick factor that surprises and repulses in a good way."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[P]imping... Paris Hilton to movie audiences is [the] primary reason for the existence of this crass ‘remake’..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "I’ve got some real affection for House of Wax and perhaps that, more than anything, is why I wish it were just a tiny bit better."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "The plot relies entirely on the stupidity of the protagonists and our desire to watch them die."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C "A mundane slasher flick populated by blandly pretty people who look really good in sweaty tank tops."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "Qualquer filme no qual Paris Hilton se revele a figura mais sensata certamente tem algo de muito errado."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "Apparent kills are left unverified, handy firearms are left untouched, and the group splits up a record four times, ensuring most of these dolts will never see the dawn."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "This isn't so much a remake of the 1953 classic as a standard slasher movie grafted onto a familiar title."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 2/5 "And in keeping with the wax, wax, everywhere WAX concept of this goofy little gore-bucket, I'll just glibly assume that the screenplay was written in crayon."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg D "(Director) Collet-Serra has no facility for suspense or mood, and he stretches out the brain-dead dialogue and plodding plot until it's numbing."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 1.5/5 "Sadism is the only thing House has going for it"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 2/10 "With a minimally talented cast, it focuses on the most ludicrous, repulsive aspects: Paris Hilton, the slaughter and melting wax."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 7/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel  (1 - 39) of 39 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1