Greek mythology in popular culture a part in the "slow erosion of historical sense." The 1996 video game "Wrath of the Gods" was an adventure game set in mythical Greece, and had an educational component where players could learn about Greek myths and history and see images of Greek art in cut-a-ways. In 2003, GameSpy remarked that the 1986 video game "Kid Icarus", which had become very popular and then faded to relative obscurity, had followed a trajectory similar to its namesake from Greek mythology, Icarus, who had escaped imprisonment when his father created wings from feathers and wax, but ignoring his father's advice, Icarus
House of Wax (2005 film) the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. "Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, ""House of Wax" is not a good movie, but it is an efficient one and will deliver most of what anyone attending "House of Wax" could reasonably expect...assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much." He said of Hilton's performance that "she is no