Cinema: Time Machine

HOUSE OF WAX

Directed by ANDRE DE TOTH

Screenplay by CRANE WILBUR

Slipping on the special Polaroid glasses for this revival is an instant time trip. Back you go to the advent of 3-D in the early '50s, when Bwana Devil had a lion jumping out from the screen and It Came from Outer Space landed a meteor right in your lap. House of Wax, which combined the pop-out tricks with the grue of the traditional horror movie, seemed the best of them all.

It still does. Originally released in 1953, it stars Vincent Price in his first horror role. He is in splendidly...

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