Sue visits the museum with her boyfriend, Scott. Taking his late business partner’s advice, the new exhibits focus on gruesome scenes of torture or death, some exalting horrible people. Professor Jarrod has new exhibits being made ready for his museum. Strangely, bodies begin to disappear from the morgues in New York City, including Burke’s murdered body. The police are starting to ask questions. Jim Shane(Dabs Greer), are called to the scene of Burke’s murder. Tom Brennan(Frank Lovejoy) and his assistant, Sgt. One evening as Cathy is getting ready for a date with Burke, the camera cuts to Burke’s home and a dark, shadowy figure wearing a large hat and a black cape sneaks into Burke’s home and strangles him! Burke’s death by a sinister figure dressed in black, who sneaks in and out of the shadows, striking at night, that really scared me as I watched the film!! The police are called and Lt. The ladies are good friends, they room at the same boarding house, and it just so happens that Cathy’s fiance is Matthew Burke! Sue, herself, has a boyfriend, Scott Andrews(Paul Picerni) who just happens to be a sculpter for a new wax museum that is opening under the direction of Professor Henry Jarrod! Jarrod did survive the fire, but his hands were permanently damaged, so he has had to turn to new artists to help with his sculptures, including another new assistant, who is a mute, Igor(Charles Bronson, but the credits will have his real name listed, Charles Buchinsky.) Jarrod is also in a wheelchair, as the fire damaged his legs. Time marches on and the film focuses on the two ladies in the story, Cathy Gray(Carolyn Jones) and Sue Allen(Phyllis Kirk).
Seeing those wax figures begin to melt, to burn, to see their eyes pop out of their heads, to see their heads break off their bodies, and to see the bodies crumple in the flames, to me as a child, that was a very, very creepy scene! Jarrod tries to stop the inferno, but a part of the building collapses on him and after the fire is over, his body isn’t found. Burke then finds a flammable liquid to toss around the museum, and he also turns on the gas lights so that natural gas will fill the place! Jarrod awakens, tries to stop Burke, who does manage to flee. He and Jarrod have a fist fight and Jarrod is knocked out, falling onto the Joan of Ark display. Burke, ignoring Jarrod’s protests, sets the skirt of Marie Antoinette on fire and when Jarrod tries to put out the flames, Burke starts setting other exhibits on fire. Jarrod is horrified that Burke would suggest such a thing, decrying the plan because that would mean destroying “his friends” it is at this point that the audience knows that Jarrod is a bit crazy, as he refers to his statues as if they are real, treating them with kindness and respect as he displays them. He is an artist and doesn’t want to make such macabre displays! Burke then announces that if the museum were to burn in a fire, they would collect the insurance money. One evening, Burke visits the museum to appeal to Jarrod to make displays that depict infamous and evil people, to lure in more paying customers. He and a business partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) have opened up a wax museum in New York City. Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is a creative, artistic genius when it comes to making wax sculptures of people. This newer version was the first film to combine technicolor with the 3-D filming technique. House of Wax was a remake of an earlier Warner Brother’s movie, 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum. Price’s co-stars were Frank Lovejoy, Charles Bronson, Carolyn Jones, and Phyllis Kirk.
Warner Brothers distributed this film, directed by Andre de Toth and produced by Bryan Foy.
#PHYLLIS KIRK HOUSE OF WAX MOVIE#
My brother and I would tune in regularly and that is where I saw a horror movie that truly gave me a scare: 1953’s House of Wax, starring the wonderful Vincent Price.
On Saturday afternoons at 3:00 p.m., Channel 50 would air Chiller Theater. When I was a kid, growing up in the 1970s, we had a great cable television station to tune into, Channel 50, which beamed into our northwest Ohio home via Detroit, Michigan.
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