Name: House of Wax
Director: André De Toth
Genre: Horror
Released: 1953-01-01
Duration: 88 min

The half-man half-monster who stalked a panic swept city for the beauties he craved for his chamber of horrors!

A talented wax sculptor is horribly disfigured in a fire set by his greedy business partner, who aims to collect insurance money. Surviving in secret, the artist reopens a wax museum, now using real human corpses beneath the wax figures. As disappearances mount, a young woman begins to suspect the terrifying truth behind the museum’s lifelike exhibits.

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Comparison of House of Wax Blu-ray & DVD Editions
Disc Extras	Warner BD-ALL 3D/US 2020	Warner BD-ALL 3D/US/OOP 2013	Warner DVD-1/US 2003
Audio Commentary by David Del Valle and Constantine Nasr
“House of Wax”: Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before! (48:23)
Round-the-Clock Premiere: Coast Hails “House of Wax” (Newsreel, 2:16)
Theatrical Trailer (2:05)
Bonus Film: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933, 77:23)

Edition and Packaging Notes

Warner’s DVD is also available in the “TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Horror” box set with Freaks (1932), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) and The Haunting (1963).

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Editions	Warner BD 2013 Video File 1 Codec: MPEG-4 MVC Resolution: 1080p23.976 Overall bit rate: 43.98 Mbps Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 Length:1:28:21.296 File size: 30.16 GiB Audio File 1 Language: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 2012 kbps Bit depth: 24-bit File 2 Language: French Dolby Digital 1.0 Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 192 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit File 3 Language: German Dolby Digital 1.0 Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 192 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit File 4 Language: Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 192 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit File 5 Language: Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 192 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit Subtitles English SDH French German SDH Italian SDH Japanese Portuguese Spanish (Castillian) Spanish (Latin)
Extras	Audio Commentary by David Del Valle and Constantine Nasr Warner BD
	“House of Wax”: Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before! (48:23, 1080p) Warner BD
	Round-the-Clock Premiere: Coast Hails “House of Wax” (Newsreel, 2:16, 480i) Warner BD
	Theatrical Trailer (2:05, 480i) Warner BD