Truly a Monster Mash

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Well, that was a weak-sauce tacked-on pointless "the monster's not really dead!" ending.

About right for a movie that was so deliberately derivative.

I've seen worse movies, but it really needed to pick a lane between "monster vignette anthology" and "Fright Night pastiche". And a tone.

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Now technically we have seen way worse movies on the Monsterdon double feature. Like real bad piles of junk. Waxworks is way more competently made than some. But somehow this thing pissed me off a heck of alot more that arguably worse movies.
Possibly because I haven't seen this whole movie before, but I swear I caught chunks of it on tv. And somehow it is less than the sum of it's clips.
Except David Warner. That man was a patron saint of actors as villains in movies.
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My face when I realize that there are still 20 minutes left in this movie

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"And now, on Stargate: Origins"

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She steps into a Vampire the Masquerade larp and her new outfit still is off the shoulder. Was she hired for her sexy collar bones?
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*Everything*

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The actress that played Sarah (Deborah Foreman) was also in… wait for it…

Grizzly 2: Revenge

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That was a movie

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Really surprised that they’re NOT doing a “happened in 1 night” trope

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A small person as a servant. The signature of only the finest horror films

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@cptbutton https://retro.pizza/@kshernandez@me.dm
Yeah a little bit. David Warner was trying his best to save this movie. Didn't work, but he was great.
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Kinky time

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Swan Lake? What is this soundtrack?!

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Trivia: "In order for director Anthony Hickox to get certain cuts of the film past executive producer Dan Ireland, he persuaded his brother to parade around set in tight, denim shorts. This tactic worked as most of the final cut was intact on completion of the picture." #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature

I also think dictators are the bad people

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Those bangs are terrifying

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Vampires are very permeable. Everything goes through them like paper.
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How are the special effects good and bad at the same time? Is it the shitty lighting?
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"Raw meat"? that looks more like strawberries in jelly.
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It’s the guy from Grizzly 2: Revenge! John Rhys-Davies

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@diazona You know, I do feel robbed that there was no melty face. #Monsterdon #WrongWax 👹🍿🎥 #MonsterdonDoubleFeature

@moira @cptbutton Yeah... but hmm. The main feature was dull, but I kinda got invested in the middle. And there's an exciting action scene in the climax... until it shits the bed with the very end of the mystery.
But like that was a by the numbers expected Monsterdon failure. Waxworks was trying to make me like a piece of shit rich kid.
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@Lazarou writer's not even trivially disguised fetish

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Thanks @miru and everyone.

It's over!

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@crowbriarhexe Oh. Well then I guess I came at the right time then 😅

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Wait, which evil person from history is the multiple eyes guy?

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@PurpleJillybeans

Have to have it to maintain ISO certification.

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This is kinda like that movie John Rhys-Darby did in the 80s… what was the name of it?

Oh… I remember… Grizzly 2: Revenge

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"They'll make a movie about anything nowadays" - you know your money was well-spent in the theater

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Vampires are noisy sloppy eaters. I guess they never notice shit all over their faces with out mirrors.
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That servant had an awful mustache
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Waxwork is already sooooooo much better than Scooby Doo and the Wax Museum

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@cargot_robbie omg I was thinking the same thing, but the timing isn't right. Thanks goodness we have wormholes to the past. That explains it. lol #Monsterdon #WrongWax 👹🍿🎥 #MonsterdonDoubleFeature

More like WatWork in the end, although at least things happened

Thanks as always @ryan for hosting and everybody for posting! See you next week!

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Those cuffs don't look very effective to me...

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Raul, a classic ancient Egyptian royal name

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OK so this a town where the membranes between realities are very thin...

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Time for...

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now he has to see the vampire orthodontist
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Music video slo-mo

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@Violinknitter

If you think that is a massive bow, you haven't watched enough Japanese beauty contests...

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@Configures I’ve never heard of those, but he was GREAT in Grizzly 2: Revenge

</sarcasm>

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Ludwig of the 7 candles
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Needs more slurping noises...

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@brews No, he’s most famous for Grizzly 2: Revenge

</sarcasm>

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"Should we load the silver bullets before we go into the werewolfs hut?"
"Absolutely not!"
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Also, can I say that that little person's tux was exquisitely tailored. Well done!

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This is the second film tonight where all the waxworks are played by actors

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Have a seat. Make yourselves comfortable.

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Great heist movie music

now this movie just needs a heist

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@jgamble

What about David Warner dressed as Willy Wonka?

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@diazona Jury is still out for me
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This is listed as a comedy

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I still don’t know what that was but it’s over so there’s that. #Monsterdon
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finished watching Waxwork 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Disjointed vignettes & dislikeable characters.

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.

4k, censored: https://youtu.be/ubGK7L5qMDA
VHS rip: https://archive.org/details/waxwork-1988_202510

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This being the director's first movie almost makes sense why it's a sloppy mess.
His second movie was a vampire flick starring David Carradine and Bruce Campbell. Well shit we're gonna end up seeing that someday.
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This is a little prior to Tails from the Crypt..
... anyone get the sense someone caught wind of the development of that and tried to jump the gun with their own project?

Because these felt like some sub-Tails From the Crypt scripts that were bodged together artlessly.

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Miles O'Keefe as Count Dracula?

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Thanks @ryan for hosting and the gang for laying into it! :D

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Song choice: Cuz it all started with them going to a "private party" at the wax museum? I dunno

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Well, at least this movie had actual monsters instead of some random guy in a rubber mask???

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Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the double feature and everyone for everything else 🥳 #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature

The fuck is this ending song choice? Writer/director your movie is bad and you should feel bad.
Waxwork: 1/5 stars
David Warner: 5/5 Davids Warner
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Why does the hand sound like a mouse??

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@cargot_robbie God, where to begin. lol #Monsterdon #WrongWax 👹🍿🎥 #MonsterdonDoubleFeature

Apparently the hand survived?

*Thing from Addams Family snaps his fingers*
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Oh that fire superimposed over the window was really bad. Like super bad.
But the miniature in the next cut looks fine. Again this movie has good and bad special effects right next to each other.
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How do you push a man over a railing and not have him land in the boiling vat of wax?? You suck movie.
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On paper this movie could be awesome. but at almost every turn (not involving David Warner) it's pretty shit.
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Being a real man is all about winning swordfights

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@crowbriarhexe

Another case of several different movies fighting for supremacy inside one feature.

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Another butler makes a sacrifice for his rich spoiled asshole of a charge.
Did someone just Dirty Harry a bat? The comedy is so rare and random it kinda doesn't work.
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McNee said "If even one of them gets out, they'll infect the whole world".

... uh, what happened to the cheek sample the detective took? Was that from a visit before he ran into the mummy or the same one?

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@Terencio and what we got is more like "impale things = good"

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David Warner's plans all destroyed by the fight sequence from the climax of Blazing Saddles.

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13 before the movie
2 the first night
1 cop
2 more tonight

Yeah, 18

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People wanted a movie where the waxwork figures come alive and kill people.
The movie gave you waxworks that come alive and kill people.

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Finally! A decent mullet!

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@Lazarou it totally is

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"There is no spoon."

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I'd be amused if her being so into her kink that she doesn't even care about the fate of her friends or the world is what ultimately breaks the evil plan.

Like Homer and the infinite doughnut machine.

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Oh I've had worse whippings in Baldur's Gate. You'll be fine girl.
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Marques de Safework isn't the real evil one here, it's the shitty noble pulling his strings.
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All of humanity is on the line; it's an apocalypse if they fail; but the protagonist is too shit scared of getting charged with arson to just make a sufficient quantity of petrol-bombs loaded into a van to guarantee no-one's dousing shit.

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