@kcarr2015 The preview made it look like much more of a "B" film. #monsterdon

Oh good the niece was nice to Kharkov by giving him a flower watering tutorial.

Now the redhead singer is singing again in the singsong pub. Noir Hat man shows up to complain about the music more while he gawks at the singer.

#monsterdon

@steggy it seems like its mostly a detective movie, but it's weird that they seemingly solved the mystery for the audience and the detective bits are a sideshow?

Unless they reveal that the wax murder was all a dream and one of the humans did it.

#monsterdon

As a landlord, you can just tell people to fuck off if they're noisy and upsetting everyone....

#Monsterdon

old dude actually die at the sight of a thigh...

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The trope where the only witness can’t speak and doesn’t realize there are other ways to communicate

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OMG, just joined and all I can say is it should be a 1970's Sunday afternoon with lousy wallpaper, the curtains drawn, rain pelting, and the TV the only light source in the room...

#Monsterdon

Wouldn't it make more sense that Dupree had just made a self portrait in wax? Did you sculpt and put hair on that in one night by yourself Ray Milland?
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after some puttering around where the heiress acts like a mild jerk more, we have a funeral scene that manages to be both very sunny and very rainy at once.

Kharkov foreshadows the lawyer dad in Twin Peaks by crying while cuddling the coffin; there's probably a trope for that but I'm gonna call it "crying while cuddling the coffin".

The heiress yells at Kharkov again, then the Noir Hat Man tries to buy the wax figures from her. She says "no" but invites him to the museum anyway.

#monsterdon

@randy_s a.k.a. the “Servant Girl Annihilator” (apparently called that by O. Henry)

#Monsterdon

Keeping the wax hot if not boiling has got to mean a real fuel expense

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Karkov showing a thoroughly un-British amount of emotion at a funeral....

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Rain? In London?
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waxy, waxy business.

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I think I finally figured out the ending of Communion (1989)

All of those names where the names of the people that worked on the movie

#monsterdon #30rock #communion1989

Horrible but authentic amount of Ableism, they're going to pin everything on Karkov, aren't they?

#Monsterdon

I weren't droppin' no eaves

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UNHAND THAT WAX STATUE!

NOT LIKE THAT!

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@diazona #monsterdon

idk... probate law can be pretty terrifying....

After the murder tour, the kind-hearted niece and the jack the ripper nerd cop hang out in the fireplace until the second wax magician wanders in to sip tea and talk about murders, prompting the jack-the-ripper-nerd-cop to make an excuse to leave and do work (which is checking the finances of the deceased wax magician).

He learns that the two ladies stayed in a hotel nearby, so he (briefly?) suspects them.

#monsterdon

You disastrous jezebel

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I remember going to a wax museum on a family vacation once. That means it was either in Seattle or Portland or surrounding areas because that's where we always went if we left town for Christmas. #monsterdon

Aunt Julia is a hard ass capitalist...

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I'm not sure of the wax figures are just played by people standing really still but sometimes they jiggle a bit, or if my video just wobbles them a bit.

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Hm, Lizzie Borden's murdering bit was around the same time as Jack the Ripper.

#Monsterdon #WaxMuseum1973

This movie has decided to ship the young cop with a Jack the Ripper special interest with the niece, so we can have a love interest. The audience is certain to be riveted.

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"how does it go?"

dude, we already had a musical number, can you please not?

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#monsterdon This is our ACAB exhibit, watch out for all the other cops, like the ones hovering around the front door…

Not enough crimes to investigate? Cause some!

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I've always thought 'street walker' a synonym for prostitute. #monsterdon

"that's a harsh word sir, we prefer 'sex worker' and it's a profession like any other"

Modern Publican

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To distract the audience we have a relative in a hat appear, who says that she owns the wax museum now because of the wax magician's death. We also have another wax magician who says he made some of the statues and was not fond of the idea of the first wax museum saving it. The second wax magician argues with the noir hat man over who owns the thing now.

This three way debate migh be more impactful in a murder mystery, but the audience already knows the wax statue did it.

#monsterdon

well that just became trafficking

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The preview for this doesn't make this look near as good as it is. There's an actual story. I wonder if that's on purpose? Make it look like a dumb slasher flick. #monsterdon

You can share a bunkbed with Karkov! Oh, it will be splendid

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@pngwen The Bride of Frankenstein!

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Team police was about to blame Kharkov, but we decided not to because the Wax Magician was stabbed by a right handed man, and they think his hand was too withered to do a stabbing.

Naturally, we suspect the wax statue of jack the ripper next, which the audience knows is guilty, and the police should at least recognize that a wax statue of Jack the Ripper is at least a very suspicious type of wax statue.

#monsterdon

The youngest male character is blurring the line between sideburns and mutton chops. #monsterdon

This film needs more monsters and less Edwardian crime drama

C'mon Ray, drink some weird potion or something

#Monsterdon

Ten years after jack the ripper would put this movie at 1901? The "end" of jack the ripper is unclear. #monsterdon

Got some poppables at the store this week. First time. I really like them. They also make sea salt flavored. #monsterdon

@GramrgednAngel plus Elsa Lanchester!
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So after a dream sequence, the Wax Magician wanders downstairs to apologize to his figures for selling the house. Then we hear Jack the Ripper call him a Liar and see him move and stab him. RIP Wax Magician, RIP.

#monsterdon

Victorian Sewer Upskirts

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In the next scene, all the wax museum people come to life and surround the Wax Magician, calling him a traitor for selling the wax museum and then threatening him with sharp objects.

Then he wakes up, because it was a dream I guess.

#monsterdon

is that steve martin in the bloody apron in the background?

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booo, fake out dream!

I hate when they do that!

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This part feels like a Twilight Zone episode. He's going to remember he's a wax work any minute. #Monsterdon #TerrorInTheWaxMuseum

The museum owners stress dreams are a lot less interesting than mine.
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Okay, so after watching the Wax Magician melt a wax girl in the cauldron and giving him a tour of the wax museum (which includes a Marie Antoinette in a guillotine and Jack the Ripper, Noir Guy in Hat goes to a pub where a redhead woman in a red dress impresses everyone with a sing song, except for Noir Hat Guy, who thinks the girl is hot, but hates the song.

This movie is now about music criticism! #monsterdon

Uh-oh, this isn't going to end well...

#Monsterdon

Clock and Horn is a nice pub name

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"The only way to shut her up is to stick your cock in her guv'nor"

Authentic London bants

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I wish I was hanging crêpe

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That singing lady is Cilla Black

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Ashes to ashes, wax to wax.
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The screaming when they're dropped into the hot wax is totally normal. #monsterdon

John Carradine, cast here as the demon Colonel Sanders #Monsterdon

That's not a raincoat, that bobby is just really into latex. #Monsterdon

a slightly late jump into #monsterdon 's Terror in the Wax Museum, but WE GET VAT

The directors last job was Baywatch, amazing. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Bing Crosby Productions!!!

Every cop show cliché in the book, the car stakeout, the spitting....

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"The DA will have my ass!"

that sort of vibe from the detective

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@ohiofi #Monsterdon #WrongWax

THANK YOU! I thought I was just being a snob. I bet there's a wax museum display about her hairdresser.

"They'll make a movie about anything nowadays!"

IT'S META! lol

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"I have crossed oceans of champagne to be with you..."

#Monsterdon #WrongWax

"Going somewhere, my beauty?" yep direct to VHS #Monsterdon

@Lazarou #Monsterdon #WrongWax

OOOH I get it. The champagne bottles had corks.

Went out for some snacks and things have happened...

Nasty leg wound!

#Monsterdon

Try to contact Wesley Snipes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)

#Monsterdon #WrongWax

well that butler hates his job....

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@cptbutton #Monsterdon #WrongWax

I don't see any motorcycles, kid vampire-hunters, or shirtless saxophonists tho...

Always say "Steak Tartare" like Gary Oldman did in Hannibal

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Not sure how long I'm going to be able to stick with this one, so far it's just making me remember how excruciating all those '80's teen movies were that substituted sleaze and misogyny for actual talent and humor, and mindless gore for plot development #Monsterdon

Always shoot DURING the transformation

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Oh wait, this is a holodeck and it's Cardassian David Warner, isn't it?

FOUR LIGHTS!!

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It's a Bank Holiday in London so let's give the double feature a go....David Warner Willy Wonka cannot resist!

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I have a new rule: if the wax museum isn't run by Vincent Price, then it's not worth visiting.

#monsterdon My ending is that Elsa Lancaster was a witch who reanimated the actual Jack the Ripper or the cop was Jack because he’s the only one who fit the body type.

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@klu9 that really, really did not work , lol!

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@paco lol, and such a poor job as well Jeff...

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#monsterdon By the way, someone should go check on Karkov.

This isn't a foundry, molten wax isn't hot enough to be instantly deadly.

All the movie posters for that movie lied. I wasn’t expecting cut-rate mystery schlock, I was expecting rampaging waxworks

#TerrorInTheWaxMuseum #Monsterdon

RE: https://timeloop.cafe/@bunnyhero/116632885884579723

THANK YOU

jesus fucking christ i'm so mad at this movie now

(which is also the first actual emotion it's evoked out of me)

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Still don’t get who did it but not that interested to find out. RIP Krakov.

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@Lazarou

But it was the pub landlord, not Flexner

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@CactuarJoe Still a distinct lack of probing. #Monsterdon #TerrorInTheWaxMuseum

@moira THE BEAST MUST DIE! #monsterdon

Ah sneaky. It was not Ray Milland, but the other guy with keys. Nicely done. #Monsterdon

aw forget it #monsterdon , time for the afterparty on....

I have emotions about that Wax Museum film and they ain't 'terror!'

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and he would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids

ty for joining, everyone!!

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We found out that he'd once been an actor, in a play called "Terror in the Wax Museum". Strange coincidence. #monsterdon

Well, that sure was (mumbles).

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>> According to the Box review and 3 Nov 1972 DV item, producer Andrew J. Fenady used twelve members of the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Pageant of the Masters, a popular southern California "Living Picture" troupe, to portray the wax figures.

Thanks y'all. Till next week...

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and there's the end!

CAST IN WAX

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#monsterdon What if Scooby Do were a Hammer Horror production? I wonder what the Harlem Globetrotters are doing right now....

Ending with Dupree and the murderer being added to the museum is good. But man, the rest of the movie...

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@allanb Yeah, he reads lips. Well read.

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