![]() The poet then imagines tales for the first two (the Jack the Ripper sequence was evidently an afterthought of sorts, and serves as a rather briefĬoda that is essentially a dream, or nightmare), and in fact becomes a character in those stories. ![]() Waxworks in order to write "back stories" for three of the characters on display, Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), Harun al-Rashid (Emil Jannings) Night's Dream, The Life of Emile Zola, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Devil and Daniel Webster. Hollywood, since a focal character uniting the three vignettes in Waxworks is played by William Dieterle, who emigrated to the UnitedĪnd directed a number of high profile films, including A Midsummer Renowned names as Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings and Werner Krauss, there may be a bit of "meta" interest for those interested in the Golden Age of While some of the supplements get into the iconic status of some of the German Abstract Expressionist actors who are in the film, including such Even that descriptor may be a bit misleading,Īs some of the supplements included on this Blu-ray disc get into, since Waxworks, whose original German title was the somewhat moreīaroque Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, includes vignettes that are arguably not really in the horror idiom. There was a forebear of both of these films that appeared during the silent era and which didn't just help establish "wax museum" tropes, but whichĪlso helped to introduce audiences to what ultimately became known as a "horror anthology". Of the Wax Museum or its kinda sorta remake from 1953, House of Wax, when mentioning this admittedly kind of peculiar subgenre, but cineastes with an interest in world cinema will know that Probably think automatically of either 1933's Mystery ![]() What is it about wax dummies that make them such redolent "characters" in so many horror tinged films? Maybe it's their " doppelgänger"Īspect, or the fact that there is definitely something creepy about watching a wax face melt, as they are prone to do in at least some of the filmsįeaturing such mannequin like elements. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, March 12, 2021 ![]()
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