House of Wax (2005) - Plot

Carly, her boyfriend Wade, her brother Nick, her best friend Paige, Paige's boyfriend Blake, and Nick's friend Dalton are on their way to a football game in Louisiana. The night before the game they camp in a field. A stranger in a pickup truck arrives, then leaves when Nick smashes one of his headlights. The next morning, Wade discovers that his car's fan belt is broken and Carly falls into a pit of rotting animal carcasses. After rescuing her, the group meet Lester, who drives Carly and Wade to the nearby town of Ambrose for a new fan belt while the rest head to the football game.

Carly and Wade arrive in Ambrose, which is virtually a ghost town. At the church, they find a funeral in progress and meet Bo, a mechanic, who offers to sell them a fan belt after the funeral. While they wait, they visit "Trudy's House of Wax", a wax museum which itself is made of wax and is the central feature of the town.

They follow Bo to his house to get the right size fan belt, where Wade is knocked unconscious by Bo's twin brother Vincent. Vincent wears a wax mask to cover his face, disfigured from where the twins were once conjoined. Outside, Carly notices a broken headlight on Bo's truck and realizes he is the man who visited the campsite. Bo captures Carly and restrains her in the cellar of the gas station, gluing her lips shut. Meanwhile, Vincent strips Wade naked and straps him to a chair, in the Wax Chamber where his body is covered in molten wax and he is added to the collection of wax figures in the House Of Wax.

Nick, Dalton, Paige and Blake realize they will not arrive at the game in time. Paige and Blake return to the campsite while Nick and Dalton arrive in town looking for Carly and Wade.in Movie Nick asks Bo about Carly's whereabouts. When she tries to gain Nick's attention, Bo cuts off the tip of Carly's finger, but she manages to tear her lips apart and screams for help. Nick fends off Bo and frees Carly while Dalton finds Wade, who is unable to move in his wax coating. Dalton attempts to free Wade on piano by peeling off the wax from his face, but inadvertently removes his skin in the process. Dalton is then ambushed by Vincent, who corners and decapitates him with a pair of hedge trimmers. Nick and Carly realize that the wax figures are actually the wax-coated corpses of the town's residents and previous visitors and that Bo and Vincent have been luring said visitors in and using their victims' bodies to make the figures realistic.

Back at the campsite, Vincent arrives and kills Blake, then chases Paige to an abandoned sugar mill, where he throws a metal pipe through her forehead. Bo and Vincent return to chase Carly and Nick into the House of Wax. Nick unintentionally sets the house on fire and the figures start to melt, as does the entire museum. Carly beats Bo to death with a baseball bat after stabbing Nick in the leg. Vincent chases Carly to the top floor where she stabs him with Nick's help. His body falls through the floor, landing on top of his brother's corpse. Carly and Nick escape from the house as it melts to the ground.

The next day, the police arrive and report that Ambrose has been abandoned for ten years since the local sugar mill was shut down. As Nick and Carly are taken to a hospital, the Sheriff learns that Bo and Vincent had a third brother. From inside the ambulance, Carly spots Lester (implied to be the third brother) with his dog, waving them goodbye as they are driven out of town.

Comments