The 1953 film ‘House of Wax’, starring Vincent Price, is set in which city?
House of Wax (1953 film) House of Wax (1953 film) House of Wax is a 1953 American color 3-D horror film, about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. Directed by Andre DeToth and starring Vincent Price, it is a remake of Warner Bros.' "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933). It premiered in New York on April 10, 1953 and began a general release on April 25, 1953. "House of Wax" was the first color 3-D feature from a major American studio and premiered just two days after the Columbia Pictures film "Man
House of Wax (1953 film) Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on , with a weighted average rating of 7.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""House of Wax" is a 3-D horror delight that combines the atmospheric eerieness of the wax museum with the always chilling presence of Vincent Price." "House of Wax" revitalized the film career of Vincent Price, who had been playing secondary character parts and occasional sympathetic leads since the late 1930s. After this high-profile role, Price was in high demand to play fiendish villains, mad scientists and assorted other deranged characters in genre films such as "The