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YES, PARIS, SPLIT ENDS ARE SCARY The scariest thing about the film: Hilton's the best part
HOUSE OF WAX: Vince Valitutti
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Release Date: May 06, 2005; Rated: R; Length: 105 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton and Chad Michael Murray

House of Wax is unusual for one reason only. Not counting the Paris Hilton sex tapes sold to all the Luddites who couldn't find it online, this is the first time you're actually being asked to pay to gape at the hotel-heiress swizzle stick who already pops up everywhere — TV shows, parties, and film festivals — at no cost. A few people would even pay $10 just to make her stay at home for an evening.

So it's hot when, just a few minutes into a mercenary horror remake about kids stumbling onto a fake town run by Achilles-tendon-slicing waxworkers, Hilton turns out to be a pleasant addition to the dead-meat cast (led by waxy Justin Timberlake and Kirsten Dunst look-alikes Murray and Cuthbert). Not because she gets murdered, but because scary movies thrive on a sense of play, and except for when Paris is on screen giving us the winking sex eye, Wax is just a museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks.


Posted May 04, 2005
 

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