jadavix "Waxwork" is a horror movie that sounds much better than it is.I mean, how could it miss? It manages to combine zombies, mummies, the Marquis de Sade, Jon Irenicus, vampires, and according to Wikipedia, a bunch of other things I didn't notice and don't remember seeing, such as a talking venus fly trap.That's the problem.Maybe they just tried to jam too much stuff into one movie. It doesn't help that the central premise of a wax museum which teleports people into horror movies (or something?) doesn't make sense.Nothing in it connected with me on any level. I wasn't entertained.There are some asides that are quite boring and add nothing to the movie, like when a kid goes and gets a cop to investigate the wax museum. I confess I stopped paying attention there.I tried to get back into it but it just wasn't interesting.

Spikeopath Waxwork is written and directed by Anthony Hickox. It stars Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Dana Ashbrook, Miles O'Keefe, Patrick Macnee and John Rhys-Davies. Music is by Roger Bellon and cinematography by Gerry Lively.A sort of portmanteau horror film made on a TV standard budget. Plot in simple terms has a bunch of pretty young adults unwisely accept an invite to visit the mysterious new wax museum that has suddenly appeared in town: At midnight! What follows is a number of stories that find members of the group magically transported into the realm of an exhibit, such as werewolf, vampire etc, and end up as part of the exhibit themselves. Can the hero in waiting save the day?It's a fun homage of a movie, playing very much firmly with tongue in cheek. The presence of some horror stalwarts in the cast is reassuring, and the effects work isn't half bad. Some of the acting is poor from the younger cast members, and while it's not hard to forgive a low budgeted movie its failings, it's still annoying that the actors playing the wax models can't keep still, while the set nearly falls down at one point. The photography is also too cloudy at times, Gerry Lively's filters straining for colour ambiance.Still, it's a decent time filler that's made with love by a horror fan for horror fans. 5/10

Glen McCulla One of my all-time favourite horror flicks, eagerly rented from the late lamented Ken Vision's Videos when i was but ten years old, to revel in the fun, the gore, and - yes, oh yes indeedy! - the scenes where the lovely Deborah Foreman is chained up and whipped into a frenzy of sweaty ecstasy by the Marquis de Sade. Powerful stuff indeed, which had a profound effect on my hormonal adolescent self, producing very powerful sensations in my brain and body.A great cast for those of us who waded through many an '80s fantastique flick at the time: Zach Galligan of "Gremlins" fame, Dana Ashbrook, soon after to star in "Twin Peaks" and "Sundown: the Vampire in Retreat", the aforesaid vision of loveliness that is Ms. Foreman, also a "Sundown" alumnus as well as the brilliantly cheesecore "Lobster Man from Mars", Michelle Johnson of "Werewolf", and David Warner and John-Rhys Davies, both from... pretty much everything! We are treated to a gourmet feast of horror tropes: werewolf, Count Dracula and his alluring vampy brides, "Night of the Living Dead" zombies, and a standout performance from J. Kenneth Campbell as the Marquis de Sade himself. The old video box called it 'more fun than a barrel of mummies' and i really can't put it better than that myself. Genius.

Joxerlives ...cheesey with a load of hot spice! A real blast from the past, frankly if someone invites you into a wax museum in a horror film no good whatsoever can come from it! Hilarious to watch the 80s fashions and haircuts now, very much dates it if nothing else. Great cast with some top notch British actors, the great David Warner, Steed himself Patrick McNee (in a camouflaged wheelchair!) and John Rhys Davies. The special effects now seem pretty lame but everyone seems to be having such a good time it really doesn't seem to matter at all.I wonder if Joss Whedon ever saw this? The final scenes with the monsters released seems very reminiscent of the final scenes of 'Cabin in the Woods'? We have a very Buffy like heroine fighting vamps and a very Angelus like villain (and indeed the actor who plays The Marquis de Sade plays Angel's father). Of course halfway through this film stops being a Fright Night style horror comedy and takes a 90 degree turn Meridian/Phantoms style into some fairly outrageous porn. We have the sexy bad girl surrendering herself to Dracula in a scene that must have had a million goth fetishists drooling through their black makeup (she certainly 'gives good neck'). If that wasn't enough we then have the good girl who isn't quite sure what she want's from her boyfriend? Turns out what she wants is to be chained up and whipped by the Marquis de Sade, orgasming like crazy, begging him not to stop or let the hero rescue her! And you thought the poster for 'The Entity' marked the death of feminism? Of course this was the era of the New Romantics so men with long hair, puffy shirts and posh accents were very much in vogue at the time. One point of order, the Marquis de Sade was a real person from the 18th century and was famous for his outrageous sexual escapades and love of inflicting physical pain on his partners. However in real life he was French, never killed anyone or even inflicted real injury upon them and was never considered evil. The term 'sadism' is derived from him. Ironically de Sade survived the French Revolution which killed so many of his contemporary aristocrats because he was in an insane asylum at the time due to his perverted exploits and what were regarded at the time as obscene publications on sexual matters.All told it's a very fun film, I'd love to see the sequel and surely it must be ready for a remake with some more convincing special effects.