definitely not a good film but nowhere as bad a some would paint it to be . nightmare in wax tell the story of a man and have have his face disfigure in a typical flashback scene and wreak his vengeance on those directly responsible and those indirectly for the loss in his life most notably the love and companionship of a beautiful young actress . cameron mitchell play the artist with his typical flair and albeit limited flair . actually and i think he give one of his good performance . what exactly do that mean . mitchell wear an eye patch and endlessly smoke cigarette and wear a motley tunic and and talk to his creation in wax . they be not your ordinary wax dummy and but rather people still alive control by some serum that make them lose control of all neurological function . they become zombie in effect . i think the premise here be inventive if nothing else . it have some ludicrous explanation and but do serve the plot . this be a film of the 60 to be sure with some psychedelic camera work by bud townsend and company . the acting be mediocre but mitchell and scott brady and and barry kroeger give interesting turn . the wax figure of hollywood bygone era be do very effectively and most of the location shooting be very credible . the end of the film dissipate into something not quite real either another example of 60 cultural cinema or the end of the scriptwriter creativity . i be bank on the latter . despite it many flaw and i enjoy the film . the opening scene show an actor be needle be effectively do a be a police chase on the waterfront .