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Waxwork (1988)
Country of Origin: USA/West Germany
Year of Production: 1988
Running Times: 95m/97m (unrated version)
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby
DIRECTION
Director: Anthony Hickox
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Vestron Pictures/Electric Pictures/Contemporary
Films/HB Filmrullen/Palla
Executive Producer: Gregory Cascante, Dan Ireland, William J. Quigley,
Mario Sotela
Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, Eyal Rimmon
Line Producer: William W. Edwards
Assistant Producer: Julian Forbes
Production Coordinator: Heather Mills
SCRIPT
Script: Anthony Hickox
DIRECTION
Second Unit Director: Bob Keen
First Assistant Director: Gary M. Bettman
Second Assistant Director: Richard Oswald
Script Supervisor: Jesse Long
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Gregory A. Gale
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gerry Lively
2nd Unit Director of Photography: John Schwartzman
Camera Operator: Richard Clabaugh
First Assistant Camera: David E. Elkins
Assistant Camera: Michael Martino
2nd Unit Assistant Camera: James Eaton
Gaffer: Russ Brandt
Best Boy Electric: Drex Reed
Electrician: James Lawrence Spencer
2nd Unit Gaffer: Steve Gero
Key Grip: Larry Edwards Jr.
Best Boy Grip: Alan Frazier
Dolly Grip: Duane Journey
Grips: Bob Myers, David Parker, David Stein
Still Photographer: Melissa Moseley
Special Still Photographer: Joel Levinson
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Christopher Cibelli
First Assistant Editor: James D.R. Hickox
Assistant Film Editor: Ann L. Thornberg
Negative Cutter: Sid Cole
Color Timers: Bob Fredrickson, Jim Williams
Laboratory: FotoKem
MUSIC
Music: Roger Bellon
Orchestrators: William Ashford, Roger Bellon, Amy Molina
Score Mixers: Tim Boyle, Rusty Smith
Music Editors: Ken Johnson, Steve Livingston
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"It's My Party"
By John Gluck, Herb Wiener, and Wally Gold
Performed by Lesley Gore
Courtesy of Polygram Special Projects
SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Robert Janiger
Boom Operator: George W. Scott
Sound Designer: Leonard Marcel
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Mark Ettel, Jeff Gomillion, T.A. Moore
Recordist: Tim Gomillion
ADR Editor: Stephen A. Isaacs
Supervising Sound Effects Editor: Don Isaacs
Sound Effects Editors: Dennis Diltz, Donlee Jorgensen, Lee Thomas
Sound Effects Assistant: Cathy McKelvey
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Leonard Pollack
Make Up Designer: Nina Kraft
Hair Designer: Nina Kraft
SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS
Special Effects Make Up: Patrick Tantalo, Cliff Wallace, Dave Elsey
Special Make Up Effects: Ian Brown, Mark Coulier, Steve Hardie, Alan
Hedgcock, Paul Jones, Dave Keen
Werewolf and Hand Effects: Steve Hardie
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Bob Keen
Special Effects Technicians: Ray Beetz, Lou Carlucci, Jeff Frink, Joe
Knott
Special Effects Pyrotechnics Supervisor: Steve Galich
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Gianni Quaranta, Peter Marangoni
Set Decorator: Suzette Sheets
Set Dresser: Jess Moreno, Christina Volz
Lead Man: Amy Ryder
Property Master: David S. Brennan
Assistant Property Master: Thom Shephard
Scenic Artists: Miranda Amador, Chuck Becker, Patrick K. Coppinger,
Cole Lewis, Corine Gee Turner
Construction Coordinator: Timothy Baxter
Construction Location Boss: Douglas Womack
Construction Foreman: Joseph Sedor
Construction Crew: David Halver, Manuel Morales, Brian Sedor, Bob Sportelli
Master Carpenters: Stan Bryant, Tom O'Brien
Carpenters: Jay Burkhart, George Dunn, Valerie Gough, James L. Ricker,
Bob Varney
Swing Gang: Flint Esquerra, Gregory Zemgals
OTHER CREW
Production Assistants: John Booth, Max Kovins, Paul Martin, John Neis
Transportation Captain: Adam Alexander Witlin
Craft Service: Betty Davidson, Jack Davidson
Paramedics: Steve Elngren, Jerry Wilton
LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Assistant Location Manager: Adam Alexander Witlin
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dedicated to Hammer, Argento, Romero, Dante, Landis, Spielberg, Wells,
Carpenter, Mom and Dad, and many more...
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Bobby Bragg
Stunts: Rich Bragg, Phil Chong, Sandy Gimpel, Kane Hodder, Shanna Teare,
Billy Morts, Denny Pierce, Paul Short
CASTING
Casting: Carlo Jones
CAST
Zach Galligan (Mark)
Jennifer Bassey (Mrs Loftmore)
Joe Baker (Jenkins)
Deborah Foreman (Sarah)
Michelle Johnson (China)
David Warner (waxwork man)
Eric Brown (James)
Clare Carey (Gemma)
Buckley Norris (lecturer)
Dana Ashbrook (Tony)
Micah Grant (Johnathan)
Mihaly 'Michu' Mesza (Hans)
Jack David Warker (Junior)
John Rhys-Davies (werewolf)
Nelson Welch (elderly man)
Miles O'Keeffe (Count Dracula)
Christopher Bradley (Stephan)
Tom MacGreevey (Charles)
Irene Olga López (maid)
Charles McCaughan (Inspector Roberts)
Julian Forbes (police driver)
Edward Ashley (Professor Sutherland)
Kendall Conrad (girl in pyramid)
Patrick Macnee (Sir Wilfred)
J. Kenneth Campbell (Marquis de Sade)
Anthony Hickox (English prince)
Staffan Ahrenberg (French guard)
Gabriella Dufwa (courtesan)
Gary M. Bettman (Mark's grandfather)
James D.R. Hickox (werewolf killer's assistant)
Candy (Dracula's butler)
James Lincoln (Dracula's manservant)
Merle Stronck (vampire girl #1)
Joanne Russell (vampire girl #2)
Ann Sophie Noblet (vampire girl #3)
Paul Badger (mummy)
Eyal Rimmon (Egyptian boy)
Kim Henderson (Marquis de Sade girl #1)
Hilary English (Marquis de Sade girl #2)
Nicole Seguin (Marquis de Sade girl #3)
Carolyn Bray (Marquis de Sade girl #4)
Henrietta Folkeson (Marquis de Sade girl #5)
Dan Ireland (zombie #1 (scenes deleted))
Karen Schaffer (zombie #2)
Leonard Pollack (zombie #3)
Bruce Barlow (zombie #4)
Cliff Wallace (zombie #5)
Dave Elsey (zombie #6)
Gerry Lively (Sir Wilfred's butler)
Steven Santamaria (taxi driver)
PLOT SUMMARY
College students Mark and Sarah and their friends visit a mysterious
tracelling wax museum which boasts exhibits of the 18 most evil men
of all time. But the visitors are destined to become part of the exhibit
and are soon fighting for their lives.
AVAILABILITY
Republic of Korea
Video Distributors: Altomedia. Co. Ltd.
DVD Distributors: Altomedia. Co. Ltd.
UK
Theatrical Distributors: Vestron Pictures (1988)
Video Distributors: Locus Video Group (1989)
DVD Distributors: Columbia/TriStar Home Video (2001)
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Vestron Pictures (1988)
Video Distributors: Vestron Video (1998)
DVD Distributors: Artisan/Lions Gate
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Netherlands
Rating: 16
UK
Rating: 18
Cut by 36s in 1988 to tone down the flagellation scene. The scene was
restored in 2001.
USA
Rating: R; unrated
West Germany
Rating: 18 (cut)
AWARDS
1989
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, France
Fear Section Award (Anthony Hickox) - winner
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Belgium
Silver Raven (Anthony Hickox) - winner
1990
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA (Saturn
Awards)
Best Costumes (Leonard Pollack) - nominated
Best Director (Anthony Hickox) - nominated
Best Horror Film - nominated
Best Make-Up (Bob Keen) - nominated
TIMELINE
1987
August
14: USA - filming begins
1988
June
17: USA - theatrical release
October
3: UK - trailer rated 18 (for theatrical release)
10: UK - rated 18 (for theatrical release)
1989
July
10: UK - rated 18 (for video release)
2001
June
14: UK - trailer rated 18 (for video release)
August
16: UK - rated 18 (for video release)
2003
September
23: USA - DVD release (Artisan/Lions Gate)
POSTER TAGS
Stop On By and Give Afterlife a Try.
More Fun Than a Barrel of Mummies
you can step inside the hall of horrors - but dare you pay the price?
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Figury z wosku - Polish title
Illusione infernale - Italian title
Museu de Cera - Portuguese title
Reise zurück in der Zeit - West German title
Waxwork: Museo de cera - Spanish title
LINKS
SEQUEL
Waxwork II Lost in
Time (1992)
SEE ALSO
Brides of Dracula,
The (1960)
Curse of the Werewolf,
The (1961)
Dracula (1958)
House of Wax (1953)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Little Shop
of Horrors, The (1960)
Lost Boys, The (1987)
Mummy, The (1959)
Night of
the Living Dead, The (1968)
Phantom of
the Opera, The (1962)
KEYWORDS
axes, bats, cannibalism, decapitations, disembodied hands, dolls, gore,
Marquis de Sade, mummies, severed hands, severed legs, snakes, splatter,
sword fights, time travel, transformations, vampires, wax museums, werewolves,
wheelchairs, whipping, zombies
Last Updated:
8 February, 2009
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