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Release Date: May 6th, 2005

Running Time: 1 hr. 47 min.

U.S. Box Office: $32,048,809

Rating: R for horror violence, some sexual content and language.

Director: Jaume Serra

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki

Critics Reviews: 5 out of 10

Chicago Sun-Times The Dead Teenager Movie has grown up. The characters in "House of Wax" are in their 20s and yet still repeat the fatal errors of all the "Friday the 13th" kids who checked into Camp Crystal Lake and didn't check out. Roger Ebert

Reelviews Sitting in a darkened theater watching House of Wax, I felt like it was the 1980s and Jason was on the loose again. From its lobotomized characters to its carefully choreographed "boo!" moments to its blood-and-gore spatter-fest, this movie is a throwback to the era of the slasher film, when the success of a production was measured not by the quality of the script, but by the quantity of viscera. House of Wax gets high marks for its body count and the innovative ways in which its participants are dispatched. James Berardinelli

San Francisco Chronicle Most horror films present an eerie atmosphere and an arresting mystery, followed by a lot of boring mayhem at the end, with a monster dying and miraculously reviving until finally, finally, 90 minutes are reached, and the movie can end. But not "House of Wax." The debut feature from director Jaume Collet-Serra does two things rare in the horror genre: It takes its time and it actually gets better as it goes along. Mick LaSalle

USA Today Twenty-ish dunderheads stranded with their libidos in Rubesville get slaughtered — a woefully exhausted screen syndrome that this week goes by the title House of Wax. As desecrations of well-remembered titles go, it could be worse. Someone might have called it On the Waterfront or An American in Paris. Mike Clark

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