What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives. A road trip to the biggest college football championship of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton) and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) and her hot-headed brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray). They wake up the next morning to find that their car has been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction--Trudy's House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets, they are stalked by a demented killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose--or become permanent additions to the House of Wax.

I honestly thought going into this movie that it was going to be terrible but even thinking that I was still excited about seeing it. In the end it was a little cheesy but I found myself thoroughly enjoying it, which is so odd. A movie I think is going to be bad but still want to see that ended up be fun to watch all the while being very cheesy and clichéd try and figure that one out. The movie really made me want to see the 1953 classic that the movie is a remake of with Vincent Price and as I was intrigued about the whole story. There really isn’t that much to the movie story wise, a group of teenagers on their way to a football game become stranded in an odd town with affinity to wax sculptures and homicidal maniacs. It wasn’t that the story was so clichéd it was how they introduced it, most of the plot twists I saw a mile off but the plot was introduced on such a spine tingling pace that I found myself jumping a number of times even if I knew what was coming.

What a motley cast of characters, but any movie where Paris Hilton gets murdered though is a good movie. It is quite obvious that Paris really needs some acting lessons as she is terrible but I was mostly just looking forward to seeing her gutted. I don’t know what was up with Elisha Cuthbert as she looked ghastly in the movie, but I guess it was fitting since it’s a horror movie and she was the one doing most of the acting. I can only guess they brought Chad Michael Murray in for his pretty looks as he really isn’t that good of an actor and he seemed so much like a teen sap opera star it was almost funny. The movie really had a lot going against it but despite all that the movie was fun to watch and ended up being quite entertaining.
3.5 stars out of 5