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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1   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."   TheMovieBoy.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 "First there was her X-rated romp with Rick Salomon, and now, in the remake of House of Wax, Hilton’s head is once again open for business."   Light Views   John Larsen 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 F "House of Wax is no mere failed attempt on cashing in on a recognizable name...it's...the complete and utter bastardization of a great genre work"   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte 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 "Filled with the usual contemporary horror staples, most notably lots of rusty torture implements and cellphones that tend to scurry mischievously out of reach just as the villain bears down on his prey."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 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 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1