Review of Mystery of the Wax Museum

I didn't really expect this to be as good as it was. Wax Museum was interesting and fun, both as a horror film and a picture from the 30's. The whole idea of real humans being the base for wax sculptures is a good one and it's executed nicely here. The shots of melting faces are particularly creepy. Lionel Atwill does just fine as the lead (good make-up effects) and Glenda Farrell plays a feisty, wisecracking (and sometimes grating) reporter, who, by the way, keeps the pace of the movie hopping. Fay Wray also has a small role too. Wax Museum was shot in a two color Technicolor process, which I thought looked cool. I also found some of the film to be rather risqué for the time, such as with certain lines of dialogue ("How's your sex life?") and other innuendos, and the dope fiend (who was changed to an alcoholic for the remake). Yep, this has become one of my favorite horrors from this decade.