* HypeBacklash: Having been lost for many years, the memories of those who saw the film when it came out were naturally processed through the NostalgiaFilter, and ''Film/HouseOfWax1953'' was seen as a lesser effort. Then a print finally came to light-- and many of those fans found themselves re-evaluating it for the worse.
* ValuesDissonance: This chunk of dialogue hasn't aged well:
-->'''Detective:''' Can you give me a description of the person you saw?
-->'''Florence:''' Not a very good one, I guess. He wasn't like anything human. He hobbled and swayed like a monkey, and the face, from the glimpse of it I got in the light from the street, was like an African war mask.
-->'''Detective:''' You mean he was colored?[[note]]We were at least spared the even more cringeworthy line from an earlier script draft, "You mean he was a nigger?"[[/note]]