Terror in the Wax Museum
saucerlost

Has anyone ever sat straight up from a nightmare? I need to lay on my side grimacing for at least a full minute before attempting mobility.

Anyway, MARGARET

Bluedepth

This could all be explained by microdoses of carbon monoxide from the natural gas lamps throughout the property… incomplete combustion leads to mild psychotic episodes and disturbed sleep…

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I like a good murder mystery, but I usually have to concentrate more on those to keep the characters straight and try to guess what's going on than I do for a movie, where I also multitask and shitpost.

Bluedepth

Crass and Goulish! What a lovely pub, right around the corner!

Bluedepth

Stairs. Challenging stairs… always with the stairs…

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Clock and Horn? What kind of name is that for a pub? I thought you had to have an animal in there somewhere, or at least a living thing like a rose.

Bluedepth

Well known London Fog, or, poorly regulated atmospheric pollution. Whichever is more romantic.

Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
JoeWynne@mstdn.plus

πŸ¦–MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ WAXY TRIVIA 🦎

Those in charge of casting needed actors for the wax figures. But how to make sure they were good at being still during long shoots?

They hired participants from "The Pageant of the Masters," where people pose still as figures in famous paintings. It's a Southern California tradition. They get credited at the end.

#Monsterdon #TerrorAtTheWaxMuseum1973 #TerrorAtTheWaxMuseum

Terencio

@kcarr2015

it was the bartender? I saw the last scene but I didn't recognize who tf it was.

saucerlost

Viacom? I should have known!

That was Terror in the Wax Museum! Thanks as always to @Taweret for curating the displays and oi guv didja see that crew innat grate? It were orrid!

Seriously thanks everyone this is always a blast 🀍

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I award "Terror in the Wax Museum" 1 out of 5 wax murder statues. It was a bad murder mystery disguised as a bad monster film. This movie could have been a blog post.

The best character was Kharkov because I like the way he grunted from under the gate to chase off the sex pests. The second best character was the redhead who fed Kharkov through the grate like a weirdo. The third best character was the surreal Chinese restaurant with one table. The other characters were boring.

Cactuar Joe
Cactuar Joe
CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

And as the stabbing sets gently in the west, we say aloha to Jack the Ripper. As always, there's one last thing to do before you leave the theater:

Was TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM (1973) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?

saucerlost

This kind of reminds me of Father Brown

I keep glancing at the time left and everything

ano yatsu
ano yatsu
yatsu@retro.pizza

"someone from beyond the grave is trying to contact you"

it's the makers of this film, having been to the afterlife and being made to realize that chinese people are people too, are back to apologize for this entire film.

#monsterdon #TerrorInTheWaxMuseum1973

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The niece is about to sensibly leave the wax murder museum because she keeps having fucked up dreams there, but the nerd cop gets her to stay by taking her out to a Chinese restaurant.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Oh wait we got a surreal dream sequence where the niece is running through a dark dreamscape being chased by Jack the Ripper who calls her name. And then she's being chased by the other murder statues who are swinging their murder implements at her.

Which... I dunno I'd probably have dreams at least as fucked up if I lived above a wax murder museum.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I'm bored, so I'm gonna make up a stupider plot line for this movie then it probably already has:

The solution is that the wax magician and the heiress did this murder cooperatively, by manipulating the Wax the Ripper statue like a giant marionette. Their motives were to get more money and make the wax museum more popular, and to kill Mr. Burns because he was trying to buy them out.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

It was the bartender. The bartender did it. It was two bartenders in a trenchcoat. It was the detective, the detective murdered him, that's the twist.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Next day the Second Wax Magician is showing us his wax caldron, and accidentally shows that he was working on a wax statue of the murder victim. The cop is like "dude poor taste" and the wax magician is like "yah this place is all about poor taste; my bro the museum man would have wanted to be an exhibit anyway" which is probably correct.

Terencio

"I can't wait around any longer." We in the audience feel the same, bud.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The screaming alerts the nerd cop, who was presumably sleeping on the doorstep waiting for them to open, so he breaks the window and comes in to find the niece passed out but not bleeding to death.

She tries to explain what the audience just saw, but the nerd cop is like "nah the Wax the Ripper statue looks like wax to me." He then goes to interrogate Kharkov, and by interrogate I mean "ask him yes/no questions very slowly then send him back to bed."

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Later that night the niece decides to wake up, then goes downstairs to wander the wax murder museum, ostensibly to get a glass of milk, but probably to train her "courage" skill. After nothing happens for a while, a hand gets chopped off from another wax person off screen and then Wax the Ripper brandishes a knife at the niece, who Screams Loudly and Melodramatically.

saucerlost

Oi, wha eef me toots were brih ish?

Okay I'll stop