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Wax (2014)
Love the concept and the look, but...
It's a great old-time movie concept, a reporter having to stay overnight in a scary place, in this case, a wax museum. It's been done to great comic and horror effect in films of the 1940's and 1950's. Haunted houses, wax museums, and spooky islands raked in the bucks by using such a durable concept. In the case of Wax, the effect doesn't work as well; the film never really grabs the audience, losing the audience by trying to focus on too many threads, and a drab, dull protagonist (who at times reminded me of Brad Dourif and William Katt). Wax could have been helped by those earlier films; most of them came in at 65 minutes or so. Wax needs much editing...and a better ending.
Games (1967)
Thomas Wolfe was right...
You can't go home again. I remember seeing Games 35 years ago on the late-afternoon movie show, heavily cut. I treasured the memory of a suave, clever, scary film. I've been looking for this film for years; I wanted to share the fun with my friends. Unfortunately, I found it on DVD. While I understand why I loved it as a kid, it is one of those treasures that shouldn't be revisited. The direction is terrible, the script is worse, the cinematography and lighting are inept, same with the editing, and S Signoret appeared to be in her cups for most of the film(though she gave a good last scene). I'll give the other actors the benefit of the doubt...