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Very best movie i ever watch

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fantastic!

Absolutely Fantastic

When the attempt to discover the secret behind a wax maker's portrayals in a museum is started, the investigators find a much more macabre and sinister reason behind them all, and when it ties into a series of local disappearances the police join in the search and bring the madman to justice.While this one isn't terrible, it's still a pretty lowered film. The biggest factor for this one here is the general look of the film in that there's a rather impressive set of work done on the Wax Museums. They both look incredible, as the realistic-looking sculptures look so much more believable due to the positioning amid the dioramas positioned together. This one offers plenty to like in that regard showing a rather great look and has some fun with all the backstage antics showing how they're created and set-up around the museum that makes them all the better. The other really great feature that impresses is the large wax station at the end, which is a really beautiful set that looks really huge and impressive. Aside from the sets, the one really impressive thing about the film is it's great opening, as this one has one of the greatest, most action-packed openings around as after the rumblings of the insurance, it soon gets the idea going that something big will happen. This one delivers better than expected as there's a rather great brawl amidst a spectacular fire that is full of spectacle, which gets completely over-the-top later on when watching the wax gorily drip away in the blaze which is really fun. This scene is what really makes this movie work, and gives this a great opening that settles into a couple rather enjoyable scenes later on that show the brawling done to find out the truth that also works nicely. Alongside the fine finale in the basement which has some really enjoyable moments during the attempt to rescue the captive, there's plenty to like here that almost makes up for the film's several flaws. The most predominant one is that there's way too much time on the lame investigator angle which is done in a really annoying manner. This one decides to have her find a lead in the story and upon looking into it, they find a way to make it look bad for her, then finds another one and is allowed to pursue it. This happens repeatedly in the film and after so many times, it finally gets to the point where it's too ridiculous to be believable. The second flaw is that it squanders one of the best possible scares in the film, the destruction of the wax mask to reveal the scarred face beneath. Seeing this should've been the greatest shock in the film, since it's set-up to come as a total surprise when it occurs, though here, there are several shots of the face long before the mask breaks, and it does leave a really huge missed opportunity quite apparent. These here really ruin the film's momentum.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

Mystery Of The Wax Museum, its a 1932 horror-thriller, this film its not that well-known, it lives buried under the 50s remake, but this one its really worth checking out.The film itself its very well-made, the cinematography, the acting, the directing, but there's one particular performance that I loved, Glenda Farrell as the sleazy and raunchy news reporter, I was captivated by her performance, she was really funny and had great chemistry with her fellow actors.The rest of the film its really good, but now its just seems generic because of how many plots it inspired, so, for its own thing its actually pretty good, definitely recommended.

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM has a lot going for it, not the least of which are sterling performances from Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray (whose part should've been that of the reporter...). The ever-reliable Atwill is, here, another of those sympathetic monsters it's kinda hard to dislike: what happens to him isn't HIS fault; it's the underhanded actions of his sleazy business partner that are to blame. The fistfights in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM are all topnotch: whoever choreographed them knew his stuff. The ending is classic (and may well have inspired the Joker's swan dive into a vat of chemicals in Tim Burton's BATMAN) and doesn't skimp on the Horror.

One of the early two strip color features was this horror classic Mystery Of The Wax Museum. This film starts with a prologue where Lionel Atwill gets into a fight with his partner in Paris and the Wax Museum they own there burns down with both sustaining injuries. Like the Phantom Of The Opera Atwill like Lon Chaney and later Claude Rains and Herbert Lom regards his wax statues as a father does a child.Fast forward to twelve years later where after instructing people to work as he did, he's ready to open shop again in New York. But something about Atwill's operation attracts reporter Glenda Farrell who apparently was doing a dress rehearsal for her later Torchy Blane series. Let's say his figures are way too realistic.Fay Wray who is Farrell's friend is put in as much in harm's way as she was with that giant ape on top of the Empire State Building that same year. And speaking of the Phantom Of The Opera the ending of this film was taken right from said source.Atwill like Claude Rains gives a marvelous performance of a man demented by tragedy. He really dominates the scenes he's in. Farrell and Joan Blondell in their time at Warner Brothers played a lot of the same roles. You could have cast Blondell here and it wouldn't be noticed. Fay Wray did well by her part.But despite all in watching Mystery Of The Wax Museum I saw something I never thought I would see in a film. Frank McHugh who plays Farrell's editor actually gets the girl in a film. Now that alone is worth seeing Mystery Of The Wax Museum.