![]() Each month, we’ll take turns selecting a film we believe to be virtually flawless, one that had a significant impact on our lives and/or helped shape the film lover we became.įor our third episode, it was Jack’s pick. Welcome to NO NOTES, the show where three cerebral cinephiles take a break from chatting guilty pleasures to discuss cinematic treasures. Or, you can stream Waxwork on Amazon Prime or Tubi. Lionsgate released a Vestron Collector’s series double feature of Waxwork/Waxwork II: Lost in Time, which can be had on Amazon. I recall it as more of a campy effort than the first but still with some merit. SpawnsĪ sequel Waxwork II: Lost in Time was released in 1992 also written and directed by Hickox. ![]() I would consider this hallowed ground that deserves a resurgence rather than a remake. He was sweet and generous with his words - and still is a handsome fella. A regular on the convention circuit (when that was still an in-person thing), I can confirm he lives up to that perception. On film, he looks like he could be your best friend and just a genuinely good person. Zach Galligan, despite his character’s pompous rich kid archetype, can’t help but be anything other than lovable and comforting. If you’ve been following The Daily Dig, she was also Jack from the vampire flick Sundown(1989), which was also written and directed by Anthony Hickox.ĭavid Warner, who plays the owner of the Waxwork, has had roles in many pivotal films - from Titanic (1997) to Tron (1982) to the professor in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991).Ī little music trivia for you: The diminutive butler played by Mihaly Meszaros ,better known as Michu, was also featured on the cover of legendary rock band The Doors’ 1967 album “Strange Days”. Zach Galligan of course starred as Billy Peltzer in both Gremlins films.ĭana Ashbrook you’ll recognize as Bobby Briggs from Twin Peaks or Tom from Return of the Living Dead II (1988). He also played Sallah, good friend to Indiana Jones in all but Crystal Skull. John Rhys-Davies who plays the Werewolf that haunted me for years played the heroic dwarf Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Marquis de Sade in this film is also the visual reference for me when I read “120 days of Sodom”, which gives it a whole other level of depth within my psyche. Get high school teens into peril and deliver. The gore and make up aside, the story didn’t suffer. Usually there’s a single monster that keeps a team of artists occupied, but here they had to work on everything from Dracula and his Brides - and one of the bloodiest sets I’ve ever seen - to Zombies that were shot in Black and White yet still were able to display the grit and gristle of any comparable modern makeup. ![]() It’s a gesture of reverence for the herculean effort put forth by effects Technician Bob Keen and the whole make up team. That is not a knock on the rest of the film. The lion’s share of the $3.5 million budget must have been spent on the special effects. It’s with this nostalgia that I hope to introduce Waxwork to some of you who may have never come across it. In the early 2000s, when I was building up my DVD collection funded by working three minimum wage jobs, I was lucky enough to rediscover a childhood favorite with the bonus of it being packaged with the sequel of whose existence I was unaware. All I knew was Billy from Gremlins was in it, and there was a Werewolf that scared the shit out of me. ![]() Before I discovered IMDb, this film eluded me for years.
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