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The Wax Mask
19975.61h 38m
Overview
Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
Directed by Sergio Stivaletti
Written by Dario Argento, Gaston Leroux, Lucio Fulci
Produced by Dario Argento, Giuseppe Colombo, Fulvio Lucisano
0Top Cast
Robert Hossein
Boris Volkoff
Romina Mondello
Sonia Lafont
Riccardo Serventi Longhi
Andrea Conversi
Gabriella Giorgelli
Francesca
U
Umberto Balli
Alex
Valery Valmond
Giorgina
Gianni Franco
Inspector Palazzi
Massimo Vanni
Victor
Aldo Massasso
Inspector Lanvin
Goffredo Unger
Puppeteer
Themes & Keywords
gorewax museummechanical hand
About The Wax Mask
The Wax Mask is a horror, thriller film released in 1997 exploring themes of gore, wax museum, mechanical hand. Directed by Sergio Stivaletti, it stars Robert Hossein, Romina Mondello, Riccardo Serventi Longhi. Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
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