--- title: 'House of Wax (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'André de Toth' released: '1953-01-01' runtime_minutes: 85 certification: 'GP' genres: - 'Horror' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/house-of-wax-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045888/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # House of Wax (1953) 1953 · GP · 85 min · Horror · United States ## Synopsis House of Wax is a 1953 American mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. A remake of the studio's own 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. The film premiered in New York on April 10, 1953, and had a general release on April 25, making it the first 3D film with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater and the first color 3D feature film from a major American studio. Man in the Dark, released by Columbia Pictures, was the first major-studio black-and-white 3D feature and premiered two days prior. ## Credits - **Director:** [André de Toth](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-de-toth) - **Screenplay:** [Crane Wilbur](https://cinepixo.com/people/crane-wilbur) - **Original Music Composer:** [David Buttolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-buttolph) - **Producer:** [Bryan Foy](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-foy) - **Director of Photography:** [Bert Glennon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-glennon), [John Peverell Marley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-peverell-marley) - **Editor:** [Rudi Fehr](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudi-fehr) ## Cast - [Frank Lovejoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-lovejoy) - [Phyllis Kirk](https://cinepixo.com/people/phyllis-kirk) - [Angela Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/angela-clarke) - [Grace Lee Whitney](https://cinepixo.com/people/grace-lee-whitney) - [Carolyn Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/carolyn-jones) - [Dabbs Greer](https://cinepixo.com/people/dabbs-greer) - [Frank Ferguson](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-ferguson) - [Grandon Rhodes](https://cinepixo.com/people/grandon-rhodes) - [Vincent Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincent-price) - [Paul Cavanagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-cavanagh) - [Paul Picerni](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-picerni) - [Charles Bronson](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-bronson) - [Philip Tonge](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-tonge) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/house-of-wax-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q667733); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.