cameron mitchell play an actor who be date a young actress who use to date the head of a movie studio ( she too young for both of them . ) . at a party and when he light his cigarette and the studio bos throw a high alcohol content drink in his face and and he catch fire . in the hospital and his face be entirely bandage and he still light up a cigarette . he become the resident sculptor of the movieland wax museum and palace and where he also light up cigarette . mitchell recovers and more or less and have really poorly do burn makeup on one side of his face that look like gray spackle and tape and and an eyepatch . when mitchell isn not smoking and he kill people . well and he only kill people sometimes and since he prefer to inject them with something that put them in a sort of waxy coma . if he doesn not administer it regularly ( and he never seem to remember ) and they start to move again a little and although theyre in a sort of hypnotic zombie state . not all his sculpture be people and though . he evidently do have talent a a sculptor . the end and which seem to have be strike from a much poor print than the rest of the movie and be really absurd . they seem not to know what to do and and go back to the title for an idea . apart from the oddly grainy final shot and the rest of the movie be in fairly good shape and except for the audio in some scene which sound like it be run through a blown speaker . definitely not one of the good wax museum movie .