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House of Wax (2005)
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House of Wax is a 2005 Hillbilly Horrors Slasher Movie. It is inspired by the 1953 Vincent Price film of the same name (but see below). It stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Jared Padalecki, Paris Hilton, Brian Van Holt, and Damon Herriman.Carly, her boyfriend, her other friends, and her brother are on their way to a major football game. They get lost on the drive there and are eventually lured into a Ghost Town (the fictional town of Ambrose, Louisiana) where a killer is waiting for them. | |
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Forceful Kiss | |
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Forceful Kiss: Subverted; after gluing Carly's mouth closed, Bo seemingly attempts to kiss her... but instead blows on the glue to help it dry faster. Though he does kiss her on the forehead. | |
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Bench Breaker | |
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Bench Breaker: When Cary is strapped to a surgical chair in the basement of the gas station, she manages to escape by pulling loose the rail by unscrewing the cap screw on one side of the chair. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: Between Nick and Carly, due to their parents favoring Carly during their teen years. Also between Bo and Vincent, hence the opening credits. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: Bo cuts the tip off of one of Carly's fingers. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The House of Wax literally being made of wax, including the walls. | |
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Paddleball Shot | |
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Paddleball Shot: Despite not being a 3D movie, this film contains several shots of weapons coming straight at the camera in the style of this trope, in Homage to Trope Maker House of Wax (1953). | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Vincent's deformed face, which he conceals beneath a wax mask. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Bo is violently unhinged. | |
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Don't Go in the Woods | |
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Don't Go in the Woods: The horror kicks off when the kids decide to sleep in a campsite near the woods. | |
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Mad Artist | |
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Mad Artist: Vincent, who kills his victims and assembles wax sculptures around their corpses. | |
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Traumatic Haircut | |
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Traumatic Haircut: If you allow facial hair, Wade gets his beard and eyebrows waxed off against his will. | |
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Rule of Sexy | |
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Rule of Sexy: Why, exactly, does Paige feel the need to strip down to her lingerie and do a striptease right before breaking the news that she's pregnant to her boyfriend? The director probably doesn't know either. But, dammit, they paid for Paris Hilton's bod, and they were gonna show it off! They were about to have sex, but she stopped because she wanted to actually talk instead of fool around. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: Vincent subdues Wade by pulling the scissors on his ankle. Paige also gets stabbed through the heel. | |
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Shear Menace | |
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Shear Menace: Vincent uses a set of scissors to cut Wade's tendons and cripple him. | |
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| House of Wax (2005) / int_3fcfdefd | type |
Hillbilly Horrors | |
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Hillbilly Horrors: This version takes place in the countryside with psycho killers. | |
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Annoying Arrows | |
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Annoying Arrows: Averted. One of the killer's brothers is shot and impaled with two arrows. He slowly (and very painfully) pulls out one from under his arm (which releases a lot of blood, and he promptly bandages it) and then tries to remove the one from the side of his chest, but the pain makes him vomit. Rather than risk passing out and bleeding to death he just cuts off the end of the arrow, leaving the rest in his chest to become a Chekhov's Gun when Nick twists it to cause Bo agony as they fight. While one could argue that Bo should have died from the arrows, Carly beats him to death with a baseball bat before that can happen. | |
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Psycho Knife Nut | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_45398e01 | comment |
Psycho Knife Nut: The villains Vincent and Bo both favour knives for close-up work, with Bo packing a shorter one, while Vincent carries a pair of longer blades that are almost, but not quite, machetes. | |
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| House of Wax (2005) / int_4583a262 | type |
Shirtless Scene | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Blake gets one when he's waking up the morning after the party. And another when he and Paige are about to fool around. Nick takes off his shirt to give to Carly to wear. | |
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| House of Wax (2005) / int_4e03e262 | type |
Wax Museum Morgue | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_4e03e262 | comment |
Wax Museum Morgue: There's a literal example downstairs with the bodies that haven't been displayed yet. | |
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Sex Signals Death | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_506bf16a | comment |
Sex Signals Death: Inverted. Paige might be pregnant, implying that she and Blake have had sex. But they get killed off after she decides not to fool around. | |
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| House of Wax (2005) / int_51c70be6 | type |
Obliviously Evil | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_51c70be6 | comment |
Obliviously Evil / Kindhearted Simpleton: May be the case with Lester, the third brother. Of the three brothers, he seems to be the most 'normal', albeit not very bright. While he does seem to be luring innocent victims to their doom, he may be doing so under orders from his smarter siblings with no knowledge of what the siblings actually intend to do with them. | |
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Conjoined Twins | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_53243b25 | comment |
Conjoined Twins: Bo and Vincent were originally conjoined, with Vincent's mouth locked on the back of Bo's head. They were separated from each other in an incredibly risky procedure that left Vincent's face maimed for life. | |
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From Dress to Dressing | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_54844c6e | comment |
From Dress to Dressing: Carly tears strips off the top she is wearing to bandage her mutilated finger. | |
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FlayedAlive | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_5b7c5b2b | comment |
Wax isn’t particularly adhesive, so a wax-covered Wade being Flayed Alive really shouldn’t have been plausible; if anything the wax should have peeled off easily without taking any skin or flesh with it. | |
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You Can Leave Your Hat On | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_5d25f366 | comment |
You Can Leave Your Hat On: Paige does this for Blake - right before she plans to tell him she's pregnant. Well played, Paris. | |
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EnfanteTerrible | |
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Enfante Terrible: Bo seems to have been born damaged, and was violent from a very early age. | |
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Silent Antagonist | |
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Silent Antagonist: Vincent can't speak. | |
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Barbarian Longhair | |
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Barbarian Long Hair: Vincent has a long black mane, fitting considering he's a freak. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: Nick towards Carly, as revealed when the killers attack. She more than returns the favour in the climax. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_707bb8ce | comment |
Pair the Spares: Parodied. Dalton films Wade and Carly making out, then Blake and Paige. He starts filming Nick, who then says "don't think about it. I ain't kissing you, dude". | |
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Batter Up! | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_77922c8c | comment |
Batter Up!: Carly defends herself from Vincent and Bo with a baseball bat, killing the latter with it. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Vincent uses his twin knives to decapitate Dalton after he falls over. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: The film opens with a subplot about how twins Nick and Carly are at odds, Paige is worried she might be pregnant and Carly is anxious about taking a job opportunity in New York. All of which is rendered meaningless when the horror starts. | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_80d55f20 | comment |
Cuteness Proximity: Carly Squees when she sees a pet store. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_8af7b342 | comment |
Sibling Yin-Yang: Carly's an A student with everything ahead of her, Nick's a delinquent with little to look forward to but jail time. In the meantime, Bo is a Talkative Loon who can't shut up and is in it for the violence, while Vincent is an artistic Silent Antagonist. | |
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Anywhere but Their Lips | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_8b38b6b9 | comment |
Anywhere but Their Lips: After gluing Carly's mouth closed, Bo licks his lips in an almost lecherous manner and looks like he's about to kiss her. Instead, he blows on her mouth to speed up the glue hardening. He then kisses her on the forehead, which still unsettles her. It's justified, he seems to want to kiss her on the lips after commenting on them and her pretty mouth, but not to the point of having his own lips glued to hers. | |
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Mask of Sanity | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_9013aef6 | comment |
Mask of Sanity: Bo's is very thin and frayed. He can fake being functional for a few minutes, but his real agenda becomes clear if his targets are given even a moment to think for themselves. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Bo. He first appears to be charming but is really Ax-Crazy. | |
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Shotguns Are Just Better | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_96ecc67e | comment |
Shotguns Are Just Better: Averted. Bo's shotgun is dangerous but he's outshot by Nick and his crossbow. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Bo and Vincent Sinclair. | |
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Dead Guy on Display | |
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Dead Guy on Display: Naturally all the figures in the House of Wax are real people. | |
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Kill the Cutie | |
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Kill the Cutie: Most slasher films have at least one good-looking chick killed, in horrifying fashion, at some point in the film. Paris Hilton is no different when she gets impaled in the head by a giant pole Vincent lobs at her. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Bo takes two crossbow bolts, a knife wound, and multiple baseball bat blows to the head before he goes down. | |
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Camera Fiend | |
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Camera Fiend: Dalton, who is quite fond of filming the couples making out. | |
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Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response | |
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Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response: The heroine gets a hold of a baseball bat and smacks one of the killers down. It's set up to look like she'll run off like pretty much every other horror movie. But after a pause, she continues to hit him until he dies. And then some. | |
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Indirect Kiss | |
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Indirect Kiss: Bo blows on Carly's mouth after gluing them, having licked his lips before doing so and puckering his lips, making it look like he was planting a kiss her on her mouth. | |
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MacGuffin | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: The college football game that Blake is dying to see is what causes the gang to be travelling that particular weekend. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: It's clear at the end that nothing happens to Bo and Vincent's brother Lester, who drove Carly and Wade to Ambrose at the beginning and possibly drove or directed many victims to Ambrose in the past. Though his clear lack of intelligence and the fact that he doesn't at any point help his siblings in the actual murdering could mean he might have been an Unwitting Pawn of his much smarter brothers instead. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Wade is knocked out and covered in wax, then placed in an exhibit. In contrast to the other victims, he's still alive when this happens. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_ac09dc0f | comment |
Alas, Poor Villain: The last two shots of Vincent and Bo with their bodies stacked up in reminiscent of how they were first conjoined before they were separated by their doctor father as they are submerged by the pool of wax would count. | |
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Final Girl | |
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Final Girl: Carly, who (barely, along with Nick) escapes the burning wax house moments before it collapses into its cellar. | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_b02f996a | comment |
Town with a Dark Secret: Ambrose is now a ghost town where all the residents have been turned into waxworks. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_b0a91b69 | comment |
Convection, Schmonvection: The main characters escape from said house as it melts and burns, not bothered by the heat at all. Which is doubly jarring, considering the melted wax they're wading/crawling through should certainly burn them on contact, even if ambient heat doesn't. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Bo and Vincent's parents strapped one of their children into his high chair if he was misbehaving and the mother is shown hitting him in the face. Nick and Carly's parents were emotionally abusive to Nick during his teenage years, frequently comparing him to Carly and eventually leading him to think of himself as The Un-Favourite. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Wade. He gets turned into a wax sculpture, but doesn't die right away... | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Although Dalton has a slightly pervy crush on Carly and films everyone with his camera, he too stands before her to prevent Lester from watching her change. | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: Bo towards Carly. It's hinted early on when he playfully flirts with her in front of her boyfriend, and his capture of her suggests he had more sexual interests. It would have probably gone further had Nick and Dalton not come. | |
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Evil Cripple | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c0afd51a | comment |
Evil Cripple: Vincent's face is so disfigured that he cannot speak. | |
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Siblings in Crime | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c2e77f17 | comment |
Siblings in Crime: Slashers Bo and Vincent. There's also a younger brother who directs their victims to them. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Blake and Paige are attacked while listening to a voicemail from Carly calling them for help. | |
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There Is Another | |
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There Is Another: At the end of movie, Bo and Vincent are revealed to have a third brother: Lester, the guy who gives Carly and Wade a ride into town. Though kind of subverted as there's no evidence that he's anything like his siblings, and he has a regular job disposing of roadkill. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Jared Padalecki shirtless? How about when he's being sprayed with boiling hot wax - after he's been drugged to boot. | |
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Collapsing Lair | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c6c86cd | comment |
Collapsing Lair: In this case, melting lair. See Exact Words below. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: While the rest of the film looks more like Tourist Trap than the original House of Wax, the entire character of Vincent is a shout-out to both the 1953 film, and its star, Vincent Price. The sequence of Carly trying to climb the melting wax staircase hearkens back to Nancy trying to escape Freddy via a melting staircase in the climactic dream sequence in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Bo might have been bad from birth, but his parents manacling him to a chair (and then duct-taping him to it on top of that) and beating him didn't help it any. It's worth noting that what he tries to do to Carly is a reenactment of what his parents did to him. Vincent was left disfigured and unable to speak by the procedure that separated him from Bo. Then when their parents died, he was left with Bo as his only contact with the outside world. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Paige is impaled through the head with a length of jagged pipe that then holds her up as her body attempts to slump to the floor. | |
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Slashers Prefer Blondes | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_c9561e8b | comment |
Slashers Prefer Blondes: Blonde Paige is killed. It's no coincidence that Elisha Cuthbert who plays Carly has her normally blonde hair brunette in this film. | |
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Mouth Stitched Shut | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_cc19006 | comment |
Mouth Stitched Shut: Bo superglues Carly's lips together, muttering to himself as he does so about how her lips need to look right. She's able to (painfully) pry them apart to scream for Nick's help. | |
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Action Girl | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Carly, who kills both of the villains. | |
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Red Herring | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Carly's voicemail to Blake, during which Bo attacks her. While he does hear it, he's attacked by Vincent before he can do anything about it. | |
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| House of Wax (2005) / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Subverted. Carly sees an old woman pulling her curtain back as Bo is attacking her. When she escapes and goes to that woman for help, it turns out she's just a wax figure too - on a mechanism to help her pull the curtain. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_df410b77 | comment |
Decoy Protagonist: Wade looks like he'll be a prominent character, judging by his status as Carly's boyfriend. He's the first one killed off. | |
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Male Gaze | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: While Vincent is trying to stab Paige in the chest, the camera angle allows her breasts to be on convenient display. | |
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Creepy Gas-Station Attendant | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_e256a235 | comment |
Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: Lester, while owns a truck collecting roadkill instead of running a gas station, does fit the bill in all other aspects of the trope: giving the characters a lift to get their vehicle repaired while being creepy, and is one of the first things not being quite right. | |
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Exact Words | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: The house of wax in this version is literally made out of wax. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_ed68bcc9 | comment |
Dwindling Party: The party begins with six friends (Carly, Nick, Paige, Blake, Dalton and Wade) ... and ends with two. It is strongly implied that several large parties of tourists, college students, etc. have visited the town before with all of them falling victim to Bo and Vincent. | |
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TheUNFavourite | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_f19ff224 | comment |
Nick and Carly's parents were emotionally abusive to Nick during his teenage years, frequently comparing him to Carly and eventually leading him to think of himself as The Un-Favourite. | |
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Evil Twin | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_f2dadf81 | comment |
Evil Twin: Discussed by Carly. She said Nick often got a hard time from their parents, leading to him thinking of himself as the evil twin. Bo is Vincent's Evil Twin. | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_fb56b948 | comment |
My Sister Is Off-Limits: Nick says this about Dalton's interest in Carly. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Wax isn’t particularly adhesive, so a wax-covered Wade being Flayed Alive really shouldn’t have been plausible; if anything the wax should have peeled off easily without taking any skin or flesh with it. Wax has an incredibly low melting point, so even long before the ending where the wax museum melts down due to a fire, any hot weather should have been enough to melt the museum. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
| House of Wax (2005) / int_fe614133 | comment |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted for the females as Carly gets her finger cut off and her lips glued together, meaning she has to pull them apart and spends the rest of the film with a bloody mouth. Even Paige gets stabbed in the ankle. However, Nick almost manages to go through the whole film with only just a little bit of dirt on himself, he gets stabbed in the leg only at the end. | |
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