House of Wax is a 1953
American 3-D horror film about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. It stars
Vincent Price and was directed by
André de Toth. It is a remake of Warner Bros.'
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), without the comic relief featured in the earlier film. In 2005, Warner Bros. distributed a new film also called
House of Wax, but its plot is very different from the one used in the two earlier films.