Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		3.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		3.0
Overall		3.5

Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman October 18, 2016

Emporiums like Madame Tussaud’s were probably spooky even before films like Mystery of the Wax Museum (available as a supplement on the House of Wax 3D Blu-ray release) came along, but there’s little doubt that a series of films with wax museums at their centers only made such exhibits seem downright evil. Waxwork and its sequel Waxwork II: Lost in Time have occasional creepy (and creeping) elements, but they also have a whimsical quality that place them pretty solidly in horror comedy territory. There’s a kind of The Twilight Zone aspect to the central plot conceit of both films, wherein various wax displays come to life, with anyone who ventures beyond the velvet rope (so to speak) transported into an alternate dimension where whatever is being depicted in the waxwork exhibit becomes “reality”. While there’s menace galore in many of the vignettes sprinkled throughout both films, there’s also an unapologetically cheeky ambience that gives the film a decidedly different tone than other films in this somewhat peculiar subgenre.

For reviews of the two films in this set, please click on the following links:

Waxwork Blu-ray review

Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray review

Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each release is assessed in the above referenced reviews.

Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each release is assessed in the above referenced reviews.

Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material for each film is detailed in the above referenced reviews.

Waxwork / Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

The Waxwork films are kind of kitschy fun if accepted on their own lo-fi terms. Some of the SFX are reasonably effective (given the budgets, especially the apparently paltry one for the second film), and the general premise (while deviated from fairly radically in the second film) is also enjoyable. Lionsgate has assembled a nicely impressive supplemental package as it continues to offer fans some nice product via its Vestron Video imprint. Recommended.