I saw the movie "House Of Wax" last night - that is I did, and so did the other two people in the theater. The movie stumbles badly as the director breaks perhaps THE cardinal rule of the "cute-girls-in-danger-from-deranged-redneck-killers" movie genre.
At first it looks like he knows what he is doing, the principle female lead character dons a man's white singlet early on in the flick.....
BUT THEN.....BUT THEN.....
He drops the ball on the golden rule, the very reason these movies exist.....
HE FORGETS TO GET IT TRANSPARENTLY WET. Dirty? Yes. Wet? Not really.
That was why the last remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was so successful. Amid all the carnage you knew that water was going to make everything good at some point. And it did.
This is the same reason why ( looking at the trailer ), the upcoming Ring ripoff, "Dark Water" might just be worth a peek.
But overall my impression of "House Of Wax"? A miss. A most definite miss.
