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* FacialHorror: The hideously disfigured bodysnatcher who is seen at work throughout the film. [[spoiler:This is actually Ivan Igor's real face.]]
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* LatexPerfection: Ivan conceals his disfigured features beneath a wax mask that is so perfect that no one standing near him ever even suspects it is a mask.
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* EvilCripple; Ivan Igor: The wheelchair turns out to be ObfuscatingDisability, but his hands are genuinely crippled.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Florence. She spends much of the movie half-sloshed, helps herself to multiple bottles from a bootleggers stash (in front of the police), and her stated goal is to marry a millionaire. None of this stops her from doing her job as an IntrepidReporter.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Igor appears to need either a wheelchair or crutches to get around due to the injuries he sustained in the fine. However, it turns out that while his hands are crippled, his legs work just fine.
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''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' was the last dramatic film made in the old two-strip Technicolor process. This method of color photography, which produced a distinctive set of pastels, dated back to ''The Toll of the Sea'' in 1922. Yes, color films are older than sound films. The three-strip Technicolor process, which produced a richer palette, replaced it around this time.
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''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' was the last dramatic film made in the old two-strip Technicolor process. This method of color photography, which produced a distinctive set of pastels, dated back to ''The Toll of the Sea'' ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'' in 1922. Yes, color films are older than sound films. The three-strip Technicolor process, which produced a richer palette, replaced it around this time.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/DoctorX''. The two films aren't part of the same continuity, but they overlap in genre (though ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' lacks most of ''Doctor X'''s comedy elements), share [[ProductionPosse the same director and several cast and crew members]], and are filmed in the same visually-distinctive Technicolor process. In addition, both films include morgue scenes, wax statues (though they only appear briefly in ''Doctor X''), multiple characters portrayed as having disabilities (including [[spoiler:a villain who is more able than he lets on]]), and a plot based on investigative reporting.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Ivan eventually murders his former partner Joe, who destroyed his first wax museum and crippled Ivan himself.]]
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* WaxMuseumMorgue: As Ivan incapable of reconstructing his previous body of work, he has corpses delivered to him to be waxed.
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* DramaticUnmask: Igor's wax mask is shattered.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: The cops get a wheelchair thrown at them in the climax.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After Igor [[ObfuscatingDisability gets up from his wheelchair]] and grabs Charlotte while ranting about his Marie Antoinette, she starts hitting his face, which [[DramaticUnmask crumbles away]] to reveal that it was all along [[LatexPerfection a rather convincing]] wax mask and that he was the disfigured bodysnatcher seen throughout the film all along]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After Igor [[ObfuscatingDisability gets up from his wheelchair]] and grabs Charlotte while ranting about his Marie Antoinette, she starts hitting his face, which [[DramaticUnmask crumbles away]] to reveal that it was all along [[LatexPerfection a rather convincing]] wax mask and that he was the disfigured bodysnatcher seen throughout the film all along]].
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* AlliterativeName: Ivan Igor.
** TwoFirstNames
* AssholeVictim: Joe.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames
* BelligerentSexualTension
* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes
* ClearMyName
* TheCoroner
* CreepyBasement
* DamselInDistress
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough, in both cases we'd already seen the horribly disfigured face under the mask; it just wasn't clear that they were the same person.
* {{Fainting}}
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* InsuranceFraud
* IntrepidReporter
* [[LatexPerfection Wax Perfection]]
* MadArtist
* NoOSHACompliance: The wax workshop.
* PerpSweating
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* SayMyName
* SceneryGorn
* ScreamingWoman
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
* TheVoiceless: Hugo.
* WaxMuseumMorgue
* YoureInsane
** TwoFirstNames
* AssholeVictim: Joe.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames
* BelligerentSexualTension
* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes
* ClearMyName
* TheCoroner
* CreepyBasement
* DamselInDistress
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough, in both cases we'd already seen the horribly disfigured face under the mask; it just wasn't clear that they were the same person.
* {{Fainting}}
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* InsuranceFraud
* IntrepidReporter
* [[LatexPerfection Wax Perfection]]
* MadArtist
* NoOSHACompliance: The wax workshop.
* PerpSweating
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* SayMyName
* SceneryGorn
* ScreamingWoman
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
* TheVoiceless: Hugo.
* WaxMuseumMorgue
* YoureInsane
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* AlliterativeName: Ivan Igor.
** TwoFirstNames
Igor, who also has TwoFirstNames.
* AssholeVictim:Joe.
Joe, Ivan's former partner who is still running shady deals.
*BattleAmongstTheFlames
BattleAmongstTheFlames: Joe and Ivan start fighting each other as Ivan's first wax museum burns down around them.
*BelligerentSexualTension
CanOnlyMoveTheEyes: Charlotte passes a few statues, whose gaze follow her.
*CanOnlyMoveTheEyes
* ClearMyName
* TheCoroner
* CreepyBasement
* DamselInDistress
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough,DamselInDistress: Charlotte in both cases we'd already seen the horribly disfigured face climax, as she is under threat of becoming a waxed corpse.
* {{Fainting}}: When Charlotte is shown themask; it truth behind the wax museum, she faints.
* FreudianSlip: After realizing that the wax statue of Joan of Arc is really a corpse of Joan Gale, Florence rushes out of the museum and farewells Ivan with "see you in jail".
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The events in New York starts justwasn't after the NewYearHasCome.
* InsuranceFraud: Joe burned down Ivan's previous wax museum to get his hands on the fire insurance to clear away their debts.
* IntrepidReporter: Florence, who proceed's headfirst into danger to get a story.
* MadArtist: Ivan is determined to restore his previous creations, no matter the cost.
* PerpSweating: Cops keep questioning Darcy, and he spills the beans on Ivan's operation as he starts going cold turkey from his drug addiction.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After Igor [[ObfuscatingDisability gets up from his wheelchair]] and grabs Charlotte while ranting about his Marie Antoinette, she starts hitting his face, which [[DramaticUnmask crumbles away]] to reveal thatthey were the same person.
* {{Fainting}}
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* InsuranceFraud
* IntrepidReporter
*it was all along [[LatexPerfection Wax Perfection]]
a rather convincing]] wax mask and that he was the disfigured bodysnatcher seen throughout the film all along]].
*MadArtist
* NoOSHACompliance:SceneryGorn: The burning wax workshop.
museum in the opening.
*PerpSweating
SlapSlapKiss: In the end of Florence's and her editor's bickering, he suddenly proposes her and she accepts.
*RichSuitorPoorSuitor
StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Charlotte is tied to a table for the waxing procedure.
*SayMyName
WaxMuseumMorgue: As Ivan incapable of reconstructing his previous body of work, he has corpses delivered to him to be waxed.
*SceneryGorn
* ScreamingWoman
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
* TheVoiceless: Hugo.
* WaxMuseumMorgue
* YoureInsaneYoureInsane: Ivan's response when Joe tells him about the fire insurance fraud.
** TwoFirstNames
* AssholeVictim:
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* ClearMyName
* TheCoroner
* CreepyBasement
* DamselInDistress
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough,
* {{Fainting}}: When Charlotte is shown the
* FreudianSlip: After realizing that the wax statue of Joan of Arc is really a corpse of Joan Gale, Florence rushes out of the museum and farewells Ivan with "see you in jail".
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The events in New York starts just
* InsuranceFraud: Joe burned down Ivan's previous wax museum to get his hands on the fire insurance to clear away their debts.
* IntrepidReporter: Florence, who proceed's headfirst into danger to get a story.
* MadArtist: Ivan is determined to restore his previous creations, no matter the cost.
* PerpSweating: Cops keep questioning Darcy, and he spills the beans on Ivan's operation as he starts going cold turkey from his drug addiction.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After Igor [[ObfuscatingDisability gets up from his wheelchair]] and grabs Charlotte while ranting about his Marie Antoinette, she starts hitting his face, which [[DramaticUnmask crumbles away]] to reveal that
* {{Fainting}}
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* InsuranceFraud
* IntrepidReporter
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* ScreamingWoman
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
* TheVoiceless: Hugo.
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* TheVoiceless: Hugo in the 1933 film, Igor in the 1953 film.
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''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' is a 1933 horror film. It was later remade as ''Film/HouseOfWax'', ''Film/HouseOfWax1953'', and remade a second time as ''Film/HouseOfWax2005''.
* AssholeVictim: Joe in the original, Matthew in the remake.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames
* BattleAmongstTheFlames
* TheCoroner
* DamselInDistress
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough, in both cases we'd already seen the horribly disfigured face under the mask; it just wasn't clear that they were the same person.
* {{Fainting}}
* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DramaticUnmask: A pretty great example. ([[FridgeLogic But how could he keep his features so mobile?]])
** And oddly enough, in both cases we'd already seen the horribly disfigured face under the mask; it just wasn't clear that they were the same person.
* {{Fainting}}
* InsuranceFraud
* [[LatexPerfection Wax Perfection]]
* MadArtist
* NoOSHACompliance: The wax workshop.
* PerpSweating
* MadArtist
* NoOSHACompliance: The wax workshop.
* PerpSweating
* SceneryGorn
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
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* YoureInsane
* TheXOfY
* TheVoiceless: Hugo in the 1933 film, Igor in the 1953 film.
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* YoureInsane
* TheXOfY
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* AlliterativeName: Ivan Igor.
** TwoFirstNames
* BelligerentSexualTension
* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes
* ClearMyName
* CreepyBasement
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* IntrepidReporter
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* SayMyName
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
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* AlliterativeName: Ivan Igor.
** TwoFirstNames
* BelligerentSexualTension
* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes
* ClearMyName
* CreepyBasement
* FreudianSlip
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
** NewYearHasCome
* HostileWeather
* IntrepidReporter
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor
* SayMyName
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretPath
* SlapSlapKiss
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