IS SHE WOMAN OR WAX??? Solve it -- if you dare!

Starring: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ - good

"My dear, why are you so pitifully afraid? Immortality has been the dream, the inspiration of mankind through the ages. And I am going to give you immortality!" - Ivan Igor

Why watch this? This is THE original Wax Museum horror-mystery film.

Plot Summary: A grotesque sculptor, Ivan Igor, reopens a new wax museum in New York a decade after his original London museum was burned down by his business partner for insurance money. Igor, horribly disfigured and in a wheelchair, is secretly using his new museum to create wax figures from actual murder victims who have been killed for their resemblance to his lost works. A wisecracking reporter, Florence Dempster, investigates the string of disappearances and growing suspicions about the uncanny lifelike quality of the statues.

Dad's Preview: Few things inspire my heart more than old classic horror films. This early entry into the "mad scientist" genre will set your neck hairs on end. It is very creepy. I even prompted early reviewer to quip,"... when a melodrama depends upon the glimpses of covered bodies in a morgue and the stealing of some of them by an insane modeler of wax, it is going too far." By today's standards, this effort would probably not even be classified as horror. Lionel Atwill is excellent as the demented statue creator, and it's always a pleasure to hear Ms. Fay Wray (King Kong (1933)) scream her at the top of her lungs. This classic was remade in 1953 as House of Wax, with Vincent Price.

Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis; Warner Bros.