Big VP hones his campy, over the top horror mastery, and viewers root for his slick talking, multifaceted artist. We believe his masterfully diabolical plan to serve his enemies their comeuppance...

| Apr 19, 2024

De Toth directs the heck out of House of Wax, and it’s one of the only 3-D offerings of the period that doesn’t rely entirely upon its visual gimmick to shock its audience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 25, 2023

If nothing else, it reinforces perceptions about the inferiority of remakes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Filmed in Warnercolor and having the advantage of an actor of Vincent Price's calibre to head the cast, House of Wax will make suspenseful entertainment for most movie-goers. The figures in the wax museum become almost too realistic as seen in 3-D.

| Dec 15, 2021

House of Wax is a film in horror history that, while experiencing varying success with each of its three inductions, can not be overlooked.

| Jan 28, 2021

Price can't help but to be perfect as an evil mastermind, tossing about ominous stares and deceptively gentle chatter.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2020

A three-dimensional item of horror and suspense. As a 3-D spectacle, it is technically far ahead of the recent Bwana Devil, and the corny story is at least up to the average chiller-diller.

| Oct 29, 2019

The film's place in cinema history is already secured as it's genuinely one of the best of the fifties horror thrillers from Warner Bros, with Price at his best - being both sympathetic and sinister.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 10, 2017

In any number of dimensions, it's a delightfully garish exercise in low-grade creeps.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 7, 2014

House of Wax has gone down in the books as a classic, but now, finally, it can be appreciated in the form it was always meant to be seen in. There is no need to ever watch it in 2D again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2013

de Toth used foreground objects and actors' entrances and exits to flaunt the effects of depth.

| Oct 7, 2013

[A] glorious-looking slice of gothic horror, which also helped establish Vincent Price as a horror icon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2013

Unlike many 3D films from the original push in the 1950s, House of Wax stands on its own without the gimmick.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 4, 2013

It's a heckuva lot of fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2012

An intermittently gripping shocker.

| Oct 17, 2011

Oh-so-delightfully creepy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2008

Casting is competent, Vincent Price is capital as the No. 1 menace.

| Oct 7, 2008

An extremely effective "unmasking" scene at the climax ... stands as one of the great shock moments in horror cinema.

| Jul 23, 2008

House of Wax was stunningly directed by Andre de Toth who used the new 3-D process to its fullest potential without bogging down the narrative with too many 'gee-look-what-I-can-do' tricks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2007

The effects are done with playfulness, zest, and some imagination (they range from a barker batting paddleballs in your face to a murderer leaping from the row in front of you), making this the most entertaining of the gimmick 3-Ds.

| Sep 24, 2007