Icarus paradox were imprisoned in the maze. In order to escape their prison, Daedalus built two pairs of wings by attaching feathers to a wooden frame using wax. He gave one pair to Icarus and cautioned him that the wax would melt if he flew too close to the sun. However, in his excitement and elation at his newfound flying abilities, Icarus did not heed Daedalus' warning and flew too high. The wax melted, the feathers fell off and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea. The sea that Icarus drowned in and the islet his body washed ashore on were
Mystery of the Wax Museum was a good mystery film but was disappointed with the abrupt ending and lack of an explaining-it-all scene. However Mordaunt Hall of "The New York Times" wrote: "It is all very well in its way to have a mad scientist performing operations in well-told stories, but when a melodrama depends upon the glimpses of covered bodies in a morgue and the stealing of some of them by an insane modeler in wax, it is going too far." Hall found it "too ghastly for comfort" – although he praised the comic performances of Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh. The "Variety" reviewer