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Waxworks

6.4(73)19241h 23m1

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

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  • insanity
  • jack the ripper
  • anthology
  • wax museum
  • torture chamber
  • cynical
  • psychotronic
  • expressionism
  • german expressionism
  • dramatic

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Germany

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR18 Mar 1926
  • AustriaAT

    • PremiereWien6 Oct 1924
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical0Berlin13 Nov 1924
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical (limited)1513 Feb 1976

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Waxworks was released on 13 November 1924.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/6/2022

    7/10

    There is more than a little of the "Dr. Caligari" (1921) to this compendium of three stories. Visually very similar in style, with angular - seemingly disjointed and out of scale sets and wonderfully targeted use of lighting serves to augment these episodes. A waxworks provides that environment where William Dieterle works, charged with writing some texts to accompany the effigies of three historical figures. The fir…

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