House of Wax (2005) on Netflix
Six friends camp in the woods en route to a football game. A severed fan belt strands Carly Jones and her boyfriend Wade in Ambrose, a near-empty town with a wax museum.
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Plot summary
Carly Jones, her twin brother Nick, her boyfriend Wade Felton and their friends Dalton Chapman, Paige Edwards and Blake Johnson are on their way to a football game. They camp overnight in a wooded stretch of Louisiana, and a stranger in a pickup truck pays them a visit before driving off. In the morning Wade finds that his car's fan belt has been cut, and Lester, a local, drives him and Carly to Ambrose, the nearest town, while the others continue to the game. Ambrose is a ghost town, and mechanic Bo Sinclair promises them a replacement belt once he has attended a funeral. While they wait, Carly and Wade wander into Trudy's House of Wax, a museum whose figures and walls are made of wax.
Cast
- Murray Smithas Dr. Victor Sinclair
- Thomas Adamsonas Young Bo
- Sam Harkessas Young Vincent
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about House of Wax (2005)
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- Roughly 20 tons of wax went into the sets, coated mainly in beeswax with other waxes mixed in to reach a soft enough texture. Every surface had to be restored and reset by hand after each take.
- A team of sculptors, mould makers and technicians spent seven months before filming even began making more than a hundred detailed wax figures, every one of them modeled on a real person.
- For the sequence in which his character is coated in wax and moulded into an exhibit, Jared Padalecki was put through a full 3D body scan by the KNB EFX Group in Los Angeles.
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