House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth and released by Warner Bros. A remake of the studio's own 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. The film premiered in New York on April 10, 1953 and had a general release on April 25, making it the first 3D film with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater and the first color 3D feature film from a major American studio. Man in the Dark, released by Columbia Pictures, was the first major-studio black-and-white 3D feature and premiered two days before House of Wax.
Theatrical release poster
Drive-in advertisement from 1953.
Endre Antal Miksa de Toth, known as Andre de Toth, was a Hungarian-American film director, born and raised in Makó, Austria-Hungary.
De Toth in 1967
Producer de Toth, director Ken Russell, and actor Michael Caine in Helsinki during the shooting of Billion Dollar Brain in 1967—on Sofiankatu, near the police station