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Price plays Professor Henry Jarrod, a devoted wax sculptor with a museum in 1910s New York. When his greedy financial partner, Matthew Burke (played by Roy Roberts), suggests that they burn the wax museum down in order to get the insurance money, Jarrod tries to stop him, only to be beaten unconscious and left for dead in the burning museum. Escaping with intense burns that leave his hands half-crippled and himself horribly disfigured, Jarrod enlists the aid of a deaf-mute sculptor named Igor (played by Charles Buchinsky, who would soon become better known as Creator/CharlesBronson) and builds a new House of Wax that showcases historical and contemporary crimes, including the murder of his former business partner. However, all is not what it seems in Jarrod's wax museum, and a friend of Burke's fiancée Cathy (played by Creator/CarolynJones) is about to make a horrifying discovery...
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Price plays Professor Henry Jarrod, a devoted wax sculptor {{sculptor|s}} with a museum in 1910s New York. When his greedy financial partner, Matthew Burke (played by Roy Roberts), suggests that they burn the wax museum down in order to get the insurance money, Jarrod tries to stop him, only to be beaten unconscious and left for dead in the burning museum. Escaping with intense burns that leave his hands half-crippled and himself horribly disfigured, Jarrod enlists the aid of a deaf-mute sculptor named Igor (played by Charles Buchinsky, who would soon become better known as Creator/CharlesBronson) and builds a new House of Wax that showcases historical and contemporary crimes, including the murder of his former business partner. However, all is not what it seems in Jarrod's wax museum, and a friend of Burke's fiancée Cathy (played by Creator/CarolynJones) is about to make a horrifying discovery...
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* MythologyGag: Beyond the various little facts that inevitably come with a true remake film, Jarrod's deaf-mute assistant is named "Igor" -- which was the name of the mad wax-sculptor from the original ''Mystery at the Wax Museum''.
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* MythologyGag: Beyond the various little facts that inevitably come with a true remake film, Jarrod's deaf-mute assistant is named "Igor" -- which was the name of the mad wax-sculptor wax sculptor from the original ''Mystery at the Wax Museum''.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Jarrod's burns to his hands make it impossible for him to continue his work by himself.
* IdenticalStranger: Sue just so happens to look ''exactly'' like Jarrod's beloved model of Marie Antoinette, that was destroyed in the fire. Presumably Jarrod based said model off another real woman, but it's still a bit of a ContrivedCoincidence.
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* IdenticalStranger: Sue just so happens to look ''exactly'' like Jarrod's beloved model of Marie Antoinette, that was destroyed in the fire. Presumably Jarrod based said model off another real woman, but it's still a bit of a ContrivedCoincidence.
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* DoingItForTheArt: In-universe. Initially, Jarrod refuses to have any "Chamber of Horror" type exhibits, despite their popularity, because he considers them a cheap and tawdry branch of the wax museum's art. He wants to educate and inspire with historical and allegorical sculptures. Then he changes his mind after his "resurrection", and uses some of his victims to fill said "Chamber of Horror" museum exhibit (though still with some historical figures such as UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn and [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Charlotte Corday and Marat]]).
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* MaskingTheDeformity: [[spoiler: Henry Jerrod's mask covers the burns he acquired during the wax museum fire that opened the film]].
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* WhamShot: As Jarrod attempts to force Sue into the wax, she pounds on his face... which suddenly breaks apart, revealing Jarrod and the disfigured man carrying out the murders are the same person.
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%%* TheDitz: Cathy.
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%%* TheXOfY
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He did lose his eye and wear a patch later but photos from the time show him with both eyes.
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A remake of ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'' (1933), this was the first 3-D color feature film from a major American studio, following the independently-produced ''Bwana Devil'' the year before; these two movies together sparked the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie boom of the 1950s (interestingly enough, this film's director, Andre De Toth, only had one eye and thus couldn't see the effect).
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A remake of ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'' (1933), this was the first 3-D color feature film from a major American studio, following the independently-produced ''Bwana Devil'' the year before; these two movies together sparked the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie boom of the 1950s (interestingly enough, this film's director, Andre De Toth, only had was blind in one eye and thus couldn't see the effect).
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* RailingKill: Jarrod is killed when he is knocked over the railing and into the vat of wax he prepared for Sue.
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* PaddleballShot: The TropeNamer. A carnival barker doing paddleball tricks at the museum entrance at one point turns to the audience and bounces the ball directly at the screen. (This was a 3D effect in the theatrical release.)
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* AssholeVictim: Matthew. He's shallow, greedy (to a murderous extent), lecherous and implied to be stringing along Cathy, who thinks he has marriage plans. He gets murdered by Jarrod, his death is disguised as a suicide and his body ends up being coated in wax and used to recreate said faked suicide.
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* AssholeVictim: Matthew. He's shallow, lecherous and by far worst of all greedy (to a murderous extent), lecherous and implied to be stringing along Cathy, who thinks he has marriage plans. plans, though granted she is herself a GoldDigger. He gets fittingly murdered by Jarrod, his death is disguised as a suicide and his body ends up being coated in wax and used to recreate said faked suicide.
