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IMDB entry
Director: Anthony Hickox
Starring: Zach Galligan, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Deborah Foreman, Dana Ashbrook
Available on Netflix
Synopsis: Some 80's rich kids go to a waxwork because they're bored/stupid and things go... awry!
Here we have a movie that was ahead of the 90's curve. It got sarcastic real early on, and it was very aware of its own silly premise. The kids (college age) go into the waxwork and one by one get sucked into the exhibits. Each exhibit itself is like a movie-scene within the movie at large, and they stick in a bunch of different classic monster-types to kill 'dem kids. You get your werewolf, your vampire-Dracula-analog, a mummy's tomb... the biggest bad one turns out to be the Marquis de Sade, of all creeps, since he not only directly challenges the lead character in the end with physical combat, but challenges the affections of the leading lady along the way.
It suffers from the common horror movie problem where you don't care at all for the oft-insufferable main characters. The guy who runs the waxwork is more interesting, at least at the beginning, than the self-absorbed college kids, so when they start getting knocked off it's not particularly troubling. Still, it isn't tedious in the way they go out, 'cause each time it's something new.
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Classic Horror Value: Low. They don't quite get everybody.
Camp factor: Extreme. This movie was pretty self-aware, though, so part of it is intentional.
'But mom. I
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