Lincoln's hired help is right out of Karloff mansion: a lumbering subhuman butler and a nasty midget. The proprietor acts like a sinister nobleman from medieval Europe. It's located in the middle of a suburban neighborhood with almost zero foot traffic. Everything about this particular wax museum is a bit off. In the first installment, rich kid Mark (Zach Galligan of GREMLINS) and a group of friends wind up at the midnight opening of a mysterious local wax museum after Zach's on again/off again girlfriend China (Michelle Johnson) is extended an invitation by the creepy owner Mr. As for the plots, the first is a sort of a dwindling teenager body count setup that involves a wax museum and some convoluted family/character backstory that is really just an excuse to set up a series of fun vignettes and the second is a bonkers kitchen-sink affair where director/writer Anthony Hickox goes homage crazy. There's stuff in these to rival the genius of THE THING 's Rob Bottin - including a very impressive werewolf that's almost on Rick Bakers level. ![]() If I had to describe 1988's WAXWORK and its sequel in one word it would probably be "goopy." These highly entertaining films relish getting down in the mud with messy but highly effective practical effects. ![]() And in addition to the two films, we are getting copious special features. Who would have thought that the HD floodgates would ever open with beloved schlock like BLOOD DINER, CHOPPING MALL and this title - a WAXWORK double feature? Cast: Zach Galligan, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker, Deborah Foreman, Michelle JohnsonĪfter years of sitting on their catalog, it looks like things are finally loosening up at the Lionsgate vault.
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