In fact, playing spot the jobbing actor is a good way to look at this movie, if you aren't certain it's for you. Throw in cameo performances from a host of well-known stars (well.they're well-known now, anyway) and you have a pleasant enough way to spend an evening. The type of humour is a little too dated to bring much more than smiles.
Horror waxworks movie#
Not that the movie is great, by any stretch of the imagination. If you haven't got that by the time the crawling hand picks up the hammer, then you ain't gonna like this movie. Waxworks 2 doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.
This movie has a great combo of horror, comedy and action and is a very good B movie. This one runs a little long, but it has another great set of scenes as our hero battles the villain through several worlds. Then it wraps up with the longest of the stories one in a medieval era with a crazed psycho trying to take power through strange means.
The scene with the salt and lemon juice had me laughing good. They first enter a sort of Frankenstien story and this one is pretty good, then they separate and the female goes into an Alien type movie, which I found to be sort of weak, but the guy goes into the highlight for me, an old haunted house tale with a very funny Bruce Campbell. There is a lot of fun to be had as they go into this mirror world in search of the means to prove the girl's innocence from a bizarre murder. This movie follows a guy and gal through their adventures in a realm where good is constantly fighting evil and it seems to take the form of old horror movies for the most part. Steve Schiff's neatly varied and robust score does the thrilling and flavorful trick. Gerry Lively's polished cinematography gives the picture a crisp high-gloss look.
The ending credits rap song and accompanying video is simply sidesplitting. Popping up in nifty bits are Bruce Campbell (in stellar spirited deadpan form and sporting a nasty open chest wound), David Carradine, Patrick Macnee (briefly back as the jolly Sir Wilfred), John Ireland (in his last movie role as King Arthur), Drew Barrymore, and George "Buck" Flower (who gets killed by a lethal disembodied hand!). Alexander Godunov has a ball as wicked black arts practitioner Scarabis, Martin Kemp does well as Baron Frankenstein, and Michael Des Barres is a slimy treat as effeminate baddie George. Cranking up the blithely dippy black humor to the gut-busting ninth degree, laying on a handy helping of graphic gore, and paying merry homage to a slew of classic horror items that include "Alien," "The Haunting," "Frankenstein," "Nosferatu," "Godzilla," and "Dawn of the Dead," Hickox takes the viewer on a giddy fantasy adventure that's admittedly cheesy as all hell, but still quite funny and entertaining thanks to its boundless energy and all-out unapologetic stupidity. Writer/director Anthony Hickox cheerfully throws logic, basic sense, and seriousness completely to the wind in this gloriously asinine sequel which finds lone survivors Mark (affable Zach Gilligan) and Sarah (winningly played with considerable spunky charm by the gorgeous Monika Schnarre) traveling through a time portal and getting thrust into a crazy alternate universe where the forces of good and evil battle it out for all eternity. Title (Brazil): "Waxwork II - Perdidos no Tempo" ("Waxwork II: Lost in Time") Note: On 17 February 2021, I saw this film again.
The conclusion is a rip-off "Back to the Future" and does not make much sense that Sarah comes back to the present days to clear her name and return to the past to stay with Mark. The movie pays a tribute to several horror movies and entertains but it is silly and does not work well in many parts. Zach Galligan is also different from the original clumsy and rich Mark. "Waxwork II: Lost in Time" is the sequel of "Waxwork" without Deborah Foreman that turned the offer down and was replaced by Monika Schnarre in the role of Sarah.
Horror waxworks trial#
They travel to the most different places in time seeking something to help Sarah in her trial in a dangerous journey. They solve the puzzle and find a compass that opens portals through time. They find a footage prepared by Sir Wilfred with a puzzle based of the Alice and the Looking Glass. Mark and Sarah search evidence to prove her innocence and they go to Sir Wilfred's house. Sarah becomes the prime suspect and goes to trial. Mark (Zach Galligan) and Sarah (Monika Schnarre) survive to the fire in the wax museum, but Sarah is followed by a severed hand that kills her alcoholic stepfather.
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