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House of Wax (2005)

★ 6.0 · 3,314 ratings on TMDB

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House of Wax poster★ 6.0

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

DirectorJaume Collet-Serra
CastBrian Van Holt, Chad Michael Murray, Damon Herriman, Dragicia Debert, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki
GenresHorror, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

House of Wax keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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