WAXWORKS WEREWOLF MOVIE

We learn a little about the respective characters’ hang-ups, interests, and neuroses in the lead-up to their time at the waxworks, and somewhat while they tour it.

Really the frame story is largely inconsequential.

WAXWORKS WEREWOLF MOVIE

This movie is nuts and that’s precisely why I love it. Did I mention that China was also weirdly flirting with him when this happened? Totally normal! Even more normal? He made this offer to Sarah and her friend China (Michelle Johnson) while dressed like a knock-off Willy Wonka. As rich, bored college students living in a weirdly suburban town with nothing to do, they decide to put on some swanky duds and take up a weirdo (the eternal David Warner) on his offer to let them have a private tour of his waxworks museum at midnight.

Two of them are more quickly recognizable to genre fans than others: Tony (Dana Ashbrook from “Twin Peaks”) and Sarah (the incredible Deborah Foreman from “April Fools’ Day”). Again – giving a play-by-play does not work for this movie.Įssentially, we are given something approaching a frame narrative: Mark (Zach Galligan from “Gremlins,” playing against type by being a rich asshole) is friends with other, presumably rich college students. Little is explained in “Waxwork” until everything is explained (sort-of). Then it’s a relatively hard cut to the present day. Right away, the movie opens with a break-in of a mansion, theft of mysterious items, and a truly bizarre murder. It’s not a satire in the manner of “Scream,” or an outright parody like “Scary Movie.” Instead, “Waxwork” is truly and purely the 1980s. In theory, it’s for genre fans because it’s incredibly referential to the genre. The truth is that “Waxwork” is a totally bananas movie. In case the trailer doesn’t tip you off to the tone of the movie, at one point while watching it with my husband, he turned to me and asked, “Wait, is this supposed to be scary?”

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