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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Rate: 9
Viewed: 8/07

8/07: Before there was Casablanca, there was Mystery of the Wax Museum.

Michael Curtiz directs a well-constructed horror picture with a superb script, great acting, and a beautiful look. It's famous as the final film to use the two-color Technicolor process. You can't miss it.

When people visited the new wax museum, most of them had no idea of what they were looking at which are actual corpses. Now, that's what I call horror. The story takes place in London in 1921 but quickly moves to New York City twelve years later. However, I wasn't told of it.

All in all, Mystery of the Wax Museum is one of the best horror films made which is helped by the unique two-color Technicolor look.

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