Waxwork / Waxwork II - Lost in Time | Joe Baker, Bruce Campbell

Waxwork / Waxwork II - Lost in Time | Joe Baker, Bruce Campbell | More camp than classic, but fun.

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Waxwork / Waxwork ...

	Waxwork / Waxwork II - Lost in Time Joe Baker, Bruce Campbell Lions Gate, 2003 average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The main draw of these low-budget horror pictures is their unabashed affection for the great horror movies of the past. In Waxwork, Zach Galligan and his teen friends investigate a wax museum, where they are menaced by the re-animated tableaux. It's about as energetic as a wax dummy. The sequel is livelier, with Galligan now passing through a time portal that transports him to various classic film scenarios: Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead, Alien, and, briefly and amusingly, Nosferatu (that's Drew Barrymore as one of the virgins cowering in bed). But why no parody of Vincent Price in House of Wax? It goes on too long, but there are weird celebrity guest stars aplenty (Bruce Campbell, David Carradine, Martin Kemp). Director Anthony Hickox helmed both offerings, without quite deciding how much humor was too much humor. In short, genre cultists are pretty much the exclusive audience here. --Robert Horton

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Both ends of the pulp horror spectrum in one volume!

Fans of pulp horror will rejoice that this dvd volume has both the first and second Waxwork movies, movies which encompass both the best & worst that 80s pulp horror movies can offer.

The first Waxwork movie has a group of college kids going to a very oddly placed waxwork museum at midnight to get a closer look at the waxwork exhibits. Too bad no one told them that the closer look meant literally becoming part of the exhibit! The creepy caretaker has to find a victim for each remaining exhibit so that history's most evil beings can once again live and take over the world. The film is quite literally 80s pulp horror at it's best.

Waxwork II: Lost in Time makes up the 2nd entry to this volume. The survivors of the first film (Mark and Sarah) find themselves needing to save Sarah from the slammer as she's being accused of her stepfather's death. For some strange reason no one believes her story that it was all the zombie hand's fault. As he's exploring his now-deceased godfather's belongings, he discovers a magic necklace that will allow him to travel through time and gather proof that magic exists and zombie hands can kill people. The second volume of Waxworks is... not so great in comparison. Rather than take the route of making a serious film, the creators decided to mix horror with comedy, a combination that so rarely works. However the film gets around this for the most part by refusing to take itself seriously and poking constant fun at itself. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Still, it's pretty fun to watch for the camp value alone, as well as several cameo performances by famous faces, most notably scream king Bruce Campbell.

Overall I'd say the dvd is well worth getting for fans of pulp horror. People who don't appreciate pulp horror would be better off looking elsewhere, although it would be a shame if they didn't at least give this series a try. As far as the DVD extras go, there really aren't any, which would have really pushed this volume to be great & not just merely good.

EDIT:

I'm returning to the scene of the crime to re-review Waxwork II. After the initial dissapointment of the first viewing, I found myself wanting to watch it again for the laughs. Many points of it were just as bad as the first go-round, but I did find several parts of the movie that I absolutely loved. One was Michael Des Barres as the overly campy George, which was one character who stole every scene he was in. The villains of the piece were ultimately more interesting than the good guys, and I have to say that part of me rooted for them deep down inside. I have to say that once I got over the "OMG, this is so bad" parts of the film, I enjoyed the movie much more than I did the first time.

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More camp than classic, but fun.

This is a fun little movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. It belongs more in the "camp" than the classic horror category; but if you like campy little b-movies, this one is well worth the price.

A waxwork museum comes to town, and a mysterious man invites some teens to come to a special showing at midnight. None of the teens are in any great danger of winning an award for acting, but by b-movie standards they aren't too bad. As each teen is lured into crossing the velvet rope and entering an exhibit, they also step through into the scene that inspired the exhibit.

This conceit provides an excuse to show teenagers "living out" scenes from every horror film from Night of the Living Dead to Dracula (with the Wolfman and Mummy thrown in for good measure) . . . and to a surprisingly long "homage" to the Marquis De Sade. The finale involves a gang of "oldsters" riding to the rescue led by a wheelchair bound John Steed from the Avengers (or at least the actor who played him.) At the end of the climatic final battle the waxworks are burned to the ground and the forces of evil vanquished . . . except for one pesky little ambulatory hand.

The sequel picks-up right where the first film ends, but with a different actress in the role of the female lead. The "undead" hand from the first movie kills the stepfather of the female lead, and she is accused of his murder. Our protagonists have to find evidence to substantiate their alibi/tale of black magic.

This time we are treated to watching our two lead characters wandering through a whole new set of scenes from "classic horror" movies: everything from Frankenstein to Aliens and the Haunting (with a great cameo by Bruce Willis) to the mall scene from Dawn of the Dead. This double feature is never in any danger of being confused with great cinema, but it is a lot of fun.

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Double-Dose Of Bubbling Goo...

WAXWORK- Zack Galligan (Gremlins) stars as a 19yo rich kid who leads his gang of friends into the local waxwork museum. Said museum is run by the mysterious Mr. Lincoln (David Warner from The Omen and Time After Time), who has evil plans in the works. The wax figures on display are no ordinary attractions. They are actually portals into alternate universes (or something like that) where the vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, and other assorted creatures really exist! The teens are each plunged into individual scenarios of almost certain death at the hands (and claws) of these fiends! This is all part of Lincoln's plot to bring forth a monster-driven apocalypse! Gorehünts rejoice! The blood flows and splatters, while the flesh is torn, shredded, and eaten! Patrick Macknee (The Howling) costars. WAXWORK 2- Zack Galligan returns along w/ the only other survivor from film one. Together, with the help of a time-portal key, they must prove that a murder was actually commited by a crawling, disembodied hand, instead of by Galligan's partner. This leads to many further adventures in various horror worlds, including the best part in either movie, where Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Bubba Hotep) and Marina Sertis (Star Trek TNG) play paranormal investigators in a haunted house, ala THE HAUNTING. The rest of this sequel can be a bit tedious, w/ occasional bursts of humor. Alexander Godunov (Die Hard, Witness) is okay, but grows tiresome after awhile. WAXWORK 1 and 2 make for an entertaining afternoon (or midnight) fright fest. The goofy '80s hairstyles, fashions, and attitudes are offset nicely by the screwball comedy / grisley slaughter combo...

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Fullscreen Basic Cable Version

This movie should be labeled : Fullscreen. Edited for Content. Bandwidth Compressed. It looks like someone taped it from a Basic Cable broadcast on SLP. Some scenes are completely missing, others just edited for content. The movie itself is interesting, just Not the Real version. Not unrated, Not R, maybe PG, though not PG-13. It is now Bland.

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