Icarus complex Icarus complex The Icarus complex is a term in psychoanalysis and personality theory first used by Henry A. Murray to describe a particular type of over-ambitious character. Psychosynthesis has applied it to those in whom spiritual ambition exceeds their personality limits, leading to a backlash. Icarus was a Greek mythological figure who tried to escape imprisonment in Crete with his father Daedalus, using wings Daedalus crafted out of feathers and wax. Daedalus warned Icarus not too fly too close to the sun or too low to the sea. Overwhelmed with the excitement of flying, Icarus flew much too high, and
Mystery of the Wax Museum stereophonic sound. A wax-museum-set TV pilot, "Chamber of Horrors" (1966), was released as a theatrical feature and offered its own gimmick, a "horror horn" that would blare as the image flashed red prior to scenes of violence and murder. The 2005 horror film "House of Wax" was also credited as being based on the 1953 film and the same original play. Mystery of the Wax Museum Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor. The film stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and