| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Phil Kloer |
"Stick a wick in it." more... |
D |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...stupid and grotesque..." more... |
C- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one..." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder |
"...our soft-witted sextet of heroes spend the first half of the movie scaring one another until the first casualty, 53 long minutes into the 96-minute film." more... |
C |
| E! Online |
"Most of this seems like a Marilyn Manson video..." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling |
"...Hilton turns out to be a pleasant addition to the dead-meat cast..." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"Between the killings, House is dead boring." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A mostly routine horror film brightened by moments of inspiration." more... |
C |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...the ending is a squishy humdinger..." more... |
C+ |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"Everything goes pretty much according to formula..." more... |
C |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...notable for having some of the most moronic protagonists ever to populate a horror film." more... |
C+ |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Hilton runs the gamut of emotions from A to A-minus..." more... |
D |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"Is it any fun? Yes. Lots. Definitely." more... |
B+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"...overlong, unscary, poorly paced and banally written." more... |
D |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"As desecrations of well-remembered titles go, it could be worse. Someone might have called it On the Waterfront or An American in Paris." more... |
D |
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