House of Wax is a 2005 horror film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It is a very loose remake of the 1953 film of the same name starring Vincent Price which is a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, reworked into the format of a slasher film. It was released to theaters May 6, 2005, and to DVD on October 25, 2005.

Plot summary

The movie begins with a scene set in 1974. A woman is boiling hot wax to make wax masks while her young son is eating his breakfast in a high chair. Suddenly the father comes in holding a near hysterical second son who is kicking and screaming wildly. The second child needs to be strapped down in his high chair due to his apparently violent nature, and is compared negatively to the other child.