But when Cathy’s friend, Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk), visits the museum, she makes a discovery that leads to the horrifying truth behind the House of Wax…

Burke’s fiancée, Cathy Gray (Carolyn Jones) is also killed. The museum’s popular “Chamber of Horrors” showcases both notable crimes and more recent ones, including the murder of Jarrod’s former business partner by a cloaked, disfigured killer.

Miraculously, Jarrod survives with severe injuries and builds a new House of Wax with help from threatening deaf-mute sculptor, Igor (Charles Bronson). He fights off Jarrod in the process, who is desperately attempting to save his precious sculptures, and splashes kerosene over his body, leaving him to die in the fire. Unwilling to wait to be bought out, Burke deliberately sets the museum on fire, intending to claim the insurance money. When his financial partner Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) demands more sensational exhibits to increase profits, Jarrod refuses. Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is a devoted wax figure sculptor with a museum in 1910s New York. The 2005 House of Wax movie bears the same title but has hardly any connection beyond that. It was successfully re-released in the US in 1971 and loosely remade in 1966 as Chamber of Horrors. House of Wax was an example of the early 1950s 3D film craze and was the first 3D film with stereophonic sound. It is a remake of Warners’ Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) without the comic relief featured in the earlier film. The movie stars Vincent Price – and is largely responsible for him becoming a horror icon – alongside Phyllis Kirk and Carolyn Jones. House of Wax is a 1953 American horror film directed by André de Toth from a screenplay by Crane Wilbur ( The Bat).

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