House Of The Wax (2005)

House of Wax (alt title: Wax House, Baby) is a 2005 horror film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It is a very loose remake of the 1953 film of the same name which is itself a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum. It was released in theaters on May 6, 2005, and was a financial success. On October 25, 2005, the movie came out on DVD and on Blu-ray on September 26, 2006.

In 1974 a woman is making a wax sculpture in the kitchen while her son eats breakfast in his highchair. Her husband enters with another son who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place. He scratches his mother's hand, causing her sculpture to fall to the ground.
In 2005, six teenagers are on their way to a highly anticipated football game in Louisiana. Night falls and the group decides to set up camp for the night. The campsite is later visited by a stranger in a pickup truck who shines his lights at the campsite, but refuses to leave or address them until one of the boys smashes a headlight with a bottle. The next morning, the group discovers that one of the cars fan belts has been damaged. Later, the group meets a disheveled, rural man named Lester, who offers to drive two of the teens to the nearby town of Ambrose to get a new fan belt, while the rest of the group goes to the football game. However, the group soon find themselves in a traffic jam and decide to return to the camp site.
The two arrive at Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. Unable to find an attendant at the auto mechanics shop, they wander into the church, disrupting a funeral. There, they meet a mechanic named Bo, who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While waiting for the services to end, the two teens visit the wax museum, which itself is made of wax and is the central feature of the town. Afterward, they follow Bo to his house to find a proper fan belt. The teens make the realization that Bo is the stranger that had appeared at the campsite previously, but not before being attacked. The teens are separated and one of them runs to the church, only to find that the funeral is ongoing, populated only by wax sculptures. She is eventually captured by Bo and imprisoned in the cellar of his gas station, taped to a chair with her lips glued together.
The rest of the group eventually comes looking for their friends, only to be attacked as well. After most (including Paris Hilton) of them are rightfully dispatched, it becomes apparent that the only inhabitants of the town are the sons of the wax museums proprietors, who have been trapping their victims for use in creating wax sculptures. The two owners were Siamese twins separated at birth, leaving one of them horribly disfigured and mentally deranged. The two remaining teens set fire in the building's basement to cut their attackers off. The fire spreads throught the museum, slowly melting it down. The two teens soon kill the brotherly owners and escape from the waxen museum as it melts to the ground, burying the two tragically disturbed brothers in their own work.
The next morning, the smoke from the fire has drawn help from outside and police and rescue workers sift through evidence throughout the town. The sheriff informs the group that the town has been abandoned for a decade, since its sugar mill closed down, and it doesn't even appear on maps anymore. Over the radio, police discuss the Sinclair's third son. The film closes and implies that Lester, who had driven the teens to the town earlier, is the third son.

1978's Horror Film "Tourist Trap"

Tourist Trap is a 1979 horror film directed by David Schmoeller, revolving around a group of friends who wind up stranded at Mr. Slausen's "museum," where the mannequins are very lifelike. Schmoeller co-wrote the script with J. Larry Carroll.



Four teenagers searching for a missing friend stumble upon Slausen's Lost Oasis, an abandoned tourist trap featuring eerily lifelike mannequins. The owner is a genial yet slightly strange middle-aged man who explains that when the new highway was built, his museum no longer has any business. As the night goes on, one by one, the teenagers disappear into Slausen's nearby house, never to come out. What they do not know is that hidden inside the home is Mr. Slausen's younger brother Davey, insane yet gifted with telekinesis, superhuman strength, and a talent for building mannequins.

1987's Romantic Comedy "Mannequin"

Mannequin is a 1987 romantic comedy film, starring Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G. W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty. It was written and directed by Michael Gottlieb, and the original music score was composed by Sylvester Levay. The film is an unacknowledged remake of the obscure 1948 film One Touch of Venus, starring Robert Walker and Ava Gardner.
Mannequin was nominated for one Oscar for the Original Song category for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".Despite poor reviews, the film was a major commercial success and has since obtained cult status. It was followed by a sequel, Mannequin Two: On the Move, in 1991.





Jonathan Switcher (McCarthy) is a struggling artist who goes from one dead-end job to another. This all changes when he sees a mannequin (Cattrall) that he had created before. He finds work at the department store displaying her, and befriends a flamboyantly gay co-worker named Hollywood Montrose (Taylor) while still managing a girlfriend, Roxie Shield (Carole Davis). While having to dodge the store's autocratic vice president (Spader) (who is also working with Illustra, a competing department store), and his dimwitted security guard (Bailey), the mannequin comes to life. The mannequin, "Emmy", was actually once Emahasure, a real-life woman from ancient Egypt. Her beauty, love and imagination inspire Switcher to become the best window dresser in town. Emmy and Jonathan have to fight through a lot, including the fact that she is alive only when just Jonathan can see her, which makes their relationship difficult.
However, everything starts to change when Illustra gets fewer and fewer customers because of the popularity of Jonathan's display windows. They first try to persuade him, through Roxie, to work there; when that does not work, the vice president and security guard decide that they must steal the mannequin from the store. They end up having to steal all the mannequins, since they could not identify Emmy from the others. When Jonathan finds out she is gone, he must fight through security guards and machines to save her. When he finally saves her, they both find out that because of their true love anything is possible, including a real live Emmy and a happy ever after.
The story has a subplot: in order to regain full status as a real life person, the mannequin must find true love.








Mannequin Two: On the Move is a 1991 romantic comedy film and a partial sequel to the 1987 film Mannequin. Although the film is labelled and referred to as a sequel of Mannequin, this film has very few references to the original film and instead its central plot is almost identical to its predecessor. The film stars Kristy Swanson as a mannequin who was frozen one thousand years ago by an evil sorcerer using a magic necklace. She remains frozen until the necklace is removed and can stay permanently unfrozen if she receives a kiss from her true love.
The film was released in the United States as Mannequin Two: On the Move, while in Ireland, it was released as Mannequin on the Move. The original film's theme song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship, written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond, was featured in this film. The original music score was composed by David McHugh. The film's tagline is: "A lively comedy about a living doll." This movie was released along with the original in a double-feature DVD in April 2008.

Flamboyant window dresser Hollywood Montrose (Taylor) has now been promoted to the head of Prince & Company's visual display department. He takes on a new assistant, Jason Williamson (Ragsdale), who in times past was Prince William, the dauphin of the kingdom of Hauptmann-Koenig. One thousand years ago, he lost his beloved Jessie (Swanson) when an evil sorcerer (Kiser) turned her into a wooden icon, now known as the Enchanted Peasant Girl. As a tribute to Hauptmann-Koenig, the Enchanted Peasant Girl is being sent to Prince & Company for a window display. Jason awakens Jessie and the two get reacquainted, having a millennium of things to catch up on. But the evil sorcerer, now reincarnated as Count Gunther Spretzle, arrives on the scene to take Jessie (and a prize necklace) and hop a flight for Bermuda, with Jason as the only one who can stop him.