The Wax Mask
(1997)
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The Wax Mask
(1997)
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Robert Hossein | ... |
Boris Volkoff
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| Romina Mondello | ... |
Sonia Lafont
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Riccardo Serventi Longhi | ... |
Andrea Conversi
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Gabriella Giorgelli | ... |
Aunt Francesca
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Umberto Balli | ... |
Alex
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Valery Valmond | ... |
Giorgina
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Gianni Franco | ... |
Inspector Palazzi
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Antonello Murru | ... |
Museum Caretaker
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Daniel Auber | ... |
Luca
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Romano Iannelli | ... |
Pathologist
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Rosa Pianeta | ... |
Anna's Mother
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Sonia Topazio | ... |
Nurse
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Massimo Vanni | ... |
Victor
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Aldo Massasso | ... |
Inspector Lanvin
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Sabrina Pellegrino | ... |
Elena
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Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures... Written by Giancarlo Cairella <vertigo@imdb.com>
Sergio Stivaletti's wax mask is a hard movie to review because it has so many good things about it and so many BAD things also. The good things are...The movie is very visual which is cool, the make-up effects are awesome along with the computer effects, and it has some cool production design(especially the room where people are turned into wax creations). Now whats bad is...Most of the acting is bad especially the main female and good guy characters, the end turns into a weird terminatoresque finale, and some characters are not explained well (what happened to the bald guy with the scar) and the last minute/minute and a half is one of the worst endings i've ever seen.....what can i say i like this movie and yet i dislike it too.....still though it could have been better. But view it for the special effects(makeup and cg) and production design.