House Of Wax 3D

This release celebrates the 60th anniversary of House Of Wax. In 1953, the film was the first color 3D feature released by a major studio. The huge hit also marked Vincent Price's first major starring horror role and changed the course of his career. Originally designed to lure audiences away from their TV sets, 3D utilized a "left-eye/right-eye" dual-projection process and polarized glasses. The movie was a major box-office success when it was released in 1953. If adjusted to today's gross, it would have brought in more than $401 million, placing it among the top 100 highest grossing films ever. It no doubt paved the way for a 3D boom over the next several years during which fifty 3D features and some two dozen shorts and cartoons were released. In House Of Wax, Professor Henry Jarrod is the owner and figure sculptor in a wax museum, whose specialty is historic figures. When he and his business Partner, Matthew Burke quarrel over the choice of exhibits displayed, Burke suggests it would be more profitable to burn down the museum in order to obtain the insurance money. As they fight, the museum burns and Jarrod is left for dead. It's not until much later at a new museum that the fate of Jarrod and the mystery of how the lifelike waxed figures are created becomes gruesomely evident. (Gary Reber)