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House of Wax
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4836
- IMDb #5225
- Google retired #1505
- Rotten Tomatoes #4499
- Metacritic #4049
- Letterboxd #3887
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4834
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4315
- Metacritic Critics #4166
- Metacritic Audience #3531
- Criticker #4097
- Douban #1633
- Kinopoisk #3695
- AlloCiné #4410
- Trakt #4320
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 19, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 34, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of friends on a road trip to a football game have their car break down near a small, isolated town. They discover the town's main attraction is a mysterious house of wax, but they soon realize the macabre exhibits are more than they seem. The town is eerily deserted, and they are being stalked by a group of murderous artists who use the flesh of their victims to create their lifelike wax sculptures, trapping the friends in a deadly fight for survival.
Details
- Director
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- Writers
- Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes
- Based on
- House of Wax
- Released
- 5 May 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $68.8M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →4 wins from 9 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| 2006 MTV Movie Awards 2006 | Best Frightened Performance | Paris Hilton | Nominee |
| 2005 Teen Choice Awards 2005 | Choice Movie: Thriller | House of Wax | Winner |
| 2005 Teen Choice Awards 2005 | Choice Movie: Scream Scene | Paris Hilton | Winner |
| 2005 Teen Choice Awards 2005 | Choice Movie Actress: Action/Thriller | Elisha Cuthbert | Nominee |
| 2005 Teen Choice Awards 2005 | Choice Movie Actor: Action/Thriller | Chad Michael Murray | Winner |
| 26th Golden Raspberry Awards 2005 | Worst Supporting Actress | Paris Hilton | Winner |
| 26th Golden Raspberry Awards 2005 | Worst Picture | Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis & Susan Levin | Nominee |
| 26th Golden Raspberry Awards 2005 | Worst Remake or Sequel | Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis & Susan Levin | Nominee |
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9 awards — House of Wax
×| Choice Movie Actor: Action/Thriller | Chad Michael Murray | Winner |
| Choice Movie: Scream Scene | Paris Hilton | Winner |
| Choice Movie: Thriller | House of Wax | Winner |
| Choice Movie Actress: Action/Thriller | Elisha Cuthbert | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Paris Hilton | Winner |
| Worst Picture | Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis & Susan Levin | Nominee |
| Worst Remake or Sequel | Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis & Susan Levin | Nominee |
| Best Frightened Performance | Paris Hilton | Nominee |
| Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film | John Ottman | Nominee |