The title of this Thriller is pretty much a dead giveaway as to what the story will be about. Pierre Jacqueline's Waxworks Museum has traveled across the pond from Europe harboring a legacy of death in it's path. Special liaison officer Andre Bertroux (Martin Kosleck), acting as a private citizen, has tracked Jacqueline's enterprise to the States in hopes of uncovering the truth behind a series of gruesome deaths attributable to characters enshrined in his grisly exhibit.
The story is a forerunner to one of the more memorable Twilight Zone episodes that aired just about a year later featuring Martin Balsam in 'The New Exhibit'. The obvious comparison involves the wax figures that come to life to commit mayhem on unsuspecting targets. Of the two stories, the Thriller entry is more obvious in it's exposition, as we see the characters who come alive to murder their intended victims.
However there's another interesting facet of these old time popular shows that bears mentioning. If you watch The Twilight Zone episodes in series order, you'll notice that one of the props used in 'The New Exhibit', a packing crate marked 'This End Up', was used again in the very next episode titled 'Of Late I Think of Cliffordville'. In the same vein, Thriller apparently re-used props from previous stories, perhaps as a way to keep expenses to a minimum. You'll notice in this story that the morgue set is the same one used in Thriller #2.11 - 'Dialogues With Death'.
As obvious as the set up is for this one, there's still a pretty cool twist at the end involving proprietor Jacquelin's pretty niece and museum assistant Annette (Antoinette Bower). Enough is left to the viewer's imagination as to what really transpired over the course of the story to make this one a thriller of a Thriller.
The story is a forerunner to one of the more memorable Twilight Zone episodes that aired just about a year later featuring Martin Balsam in 'The New Exhibit'. The obvious comparison involves the wax figures that come to life to commit mayhem on unsuspecting targets. Of the two stories, the Thriller entry is more obvious in it's exposition, as we see the characters who come alive to murder their intended victims.
However there's another interesting facet of these old time popular shows that bears mentioning. If you watch The Twilight Zone episodes in series order, you'll notice that one of the props used in 'The New Exhibit', a packing crate marked 'This End Up', was used again in the very next episode titled 'Of Late I Think of Cliffordville'. In the same vein, Thriller apparently re-used props from previous stories, perhaps as a way to keep expenses to a minimum. You'll notice in this story that the morgue set is the same one used in Thriller #2.11 - 'Dialogues With Death'.
As obvious as the set up is for this one, there's still a pretty cool twist at the end involving proprietor Jacquelin's pretty niece and museum assistant Annette (Antoinette Bower). Enough is left to the viewer's imagination as to what really transpired over the course of the story to make this one a thriller of a Thriller.