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

An intermittently gripping shocker.

| Oct 17, 2011

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

| Oct 7, 2008

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

A film in which just about every technical and dramatic gambit has been judged to near perfection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2007

Dimly we foresee movie audiences embalmed in three-dimensional wax and sound.

| Mar 25, 2006

De Toth brings off one classic sequence with Kirk fleeing through the gaslit streets pursued by a shadowy figure in a billowing cloak.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

Price brings a touch of creepy class to this otherwise middling B-level horror story.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 25, 2005

House of Wax proves once and for all that true stereo combined with perfect color and directional sound is truly a visionary new and exciting medium.

| Apr 27, 2005