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Retrospective

House of Wax (3D)

FromAndré De Toth

WithVincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones

Year1953

Duration88min.

LanguageEnglish

House of Wax has always enjoyed a special status in discussions about 3D cinema, as its director, André De Toth, had only one eye and was therefore unable to perceive space as a phenomenon at all. Is the film perhaps such an extraordinary masterpiece because De Toth had to work out each image much more consciously than his two-eyed colleagues? What is certain is that no other spatial film of those years has such a vivid, sculptural effect. Which in turn fits perfectly with the story of the sculptor with the destroyed face who runs a museum of particularly macabre wax figures – played by Vincent Price, perhaps Hollywood's most famous art collector of his generation. (Olaf Möller)

P R E V I O U S F I L M
Souvenir
Elbert Tuganov, SU, 1977, 9′

Soviet puppet animation propaganda in 3D: After a war, the devastating effects of imperialism turn against the supposed victors.