Waxwork

Waxwork (1988)

The Plot:  A mysterious waxwork opens up and a group of young adults get an invitation to go where they get more than they bargained for!

 Waxwork stars Zach Galligan (Gremlins) as a rich college kid who stumbles upon a new waxwork in the neighborhood run by David Warner (The Omen) who has a penchant for wearing clothes clearly bought at the same vintage boutique that Willy Wonka shops. Probably nothing weird about that. Oh except that David Warner needs 6 people to sacrifice in order to feed their souls to the 18 most evil beings in the world can come back to life and bring about the end of days where evil will rule the world. You didn't expect evil to think small did you?
David Warner (R) modeling the clothes from the Willy Wonka line
  One by one, Zach Galligan's friends are sucked into an alternate dimension where they get killed, have their souls taken and reappear back int he waxwork as wax people themselves. Sure. OK. Zach has to consult his grandfather's wheelchair bound friend, Sir Winston, played gloriously by Patrick Macnee. He tells Zach he must burn down the waxwork. Easy right? not so much.
Nothing strikes fear in the undead like an ascot wearing old man in an electric wheelchair

 It is here where the movie touches goes all in. We get the giant battle where all the evil creatures come out. We get the wolf man and Dracula. Played reticently by Miles O'Keefe (Cave Dwellers) last seen as Ator the Fighting Eagle. A Frankenstein monster, the mummy, Marquis de Sade, Jack the Ripper, a demon baby, and various zombies. All fighting Zach, his remaining friends and assorted accomplices led by Sir Winston, in an armored wheelchair. To say this fight is a delight would be an understatement. It's as great when written on paper as it is on film. 
There should be a demon baby in every movie


Waxwork isn't much through most of the movie; it's slow to get going and doesn't let David Warner chew the scenery much. But it does have that giant apeshit fight at the end. I give Waxwork 6 demon babies.




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