 Another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Taste the Beer of Dracula, it's a extra special bitter. Today we're doing a Request episode, our good friend Joel has been hounding us to do this movie since day one, so today we're talking about 1988's Waxworth. The movie was written and directed by Anthony Hickocks. He did some movies, but one notable worth mentioning is Hellraiser 3. Hell on Earth, with that seedy player guy. Zach Galligan is in this, he plays like the main male lead, and he was in Gremlins. Deborah Foreman's in this, and she played Buffy or Muffy in April Fool's Day. And David Warner was in this too, and he's in tons of shit. Patrick McNeese is also in this, Mrs. Peele. You don't even say what he's in this, Mrs. Peele. Why? The movie starts off kind of in a mysterious way. This man being assaulted in his house, it's thrown like head first into the fireplace. It then takes us to present time. We're introduced to the main character, a rich spoiled little brat. He's in this big long dining table with his mother, and he goes to leave to go to school, and the butler comes, and you're caffeine, and you're nicotine. Two of Mark's friends are walking to school that day, and they walk past this big mansion, which I'm sure they've walked by gazillion times anyways, but now they notice that suddenly it's this Waxworth museum. And this man appears out of nowhere, he invites them, and specifies, bring four more of your friends to the Waxworth tonight for special viewing. It shows the kids at school they're being taught history by some Nazi teacher. He all goes the high old thing by accident. That night they actually decide to go to the Waxworth. Door opens, and it says, weird midget person is respecting more. So weird, you don't even know what the hell that guy is saying. They go into the Waxworth, most of the displays are based off of horror movies and horror stories. And they look oddly very life-like. Very life-like, too life-like. Tony gets a little close to one display, gets sucked into the display, and he's in this different world. He walks up to this kind of log cabin and opens it up. Gimli from Lord of the Rings is there. He starts turning into this werewolf. Crazy looking werewolf, this thing is fucking huge. A couple of guys show up to take on this werewolf. Their gun's not even loaded, they have to take all this time to load this old gun. Drop the bullets of course. You're coming here to fight. Wouldn't you have everything ready? Just blow this thing away. The werewolf fucking destroys these guys, grabs one guy and tears him literally in half. He ends up biting Tony, and Tony starts turning into a werewolf. He appears in the actual display at the Waxworth, materializes as being part of the display. Their other friend, China, ends up getting too close to this kind of vampire looking display. She gets sucked in, dinner table with all these strange people, and she's being served bowls of blood. Yeah, and all this weird flesh shit. She makes her way down the basement and sees this guy strapped to this slab, and his legs all kind of half eaten and torn up. His rat's like eating away, it is already eaten. He's like... One of the vampires comes down, ends up fighting with China, and they're kind of fighting over the guy who's being... Still fighting over his open wounds and everything. The brides of Dracula come down, turns into a big bloodbath. Blood spraying everywhere. In this nice white room, I like that kind of contrast. She ends up being killed, and then she becomes part of the diorama. Mark and Sarah start looking for their friends, they can't find them anywhere. That little midget guy is like, God, they've left, friends have left! They haven't appeared at school either, so they start to think something's up. Mark goes to the police. Begrudgingly, he does go down to the Waxworth to go check things out. He's close to the mummy display, and he gets sucked into that. It starts off that him and this old guy, they open the sarcophagus. The old man quickly kicks the bucket, he throws a spear into the mummy, and the mummy picks him up and runs him through. I like that the mummy's kind of like puking out all this black bio, like shit onto the guy's mouth. The mummy just picks him and this girl up and throws him into the sarcophagus and seals it up. So Mark starts to do some investigating about this Waxworth, and he goes up to the attic of their house, finds newspaper clippings of the owner of the Waxworth years in the past, and he looks exactly the same then as he does now. Mark decides to talk to his grandfather's friend, Sir Wilfred, and it turns out that Mark's grandfather was into Haitian voodoo, items from some of the most evil people in the world that ever existed. Those items, it turns out, were stolen in the beginning of the movie by Lincoln, who's now owning the Waxworth. It's all super convoluted. Yeah, it's quite convoluted. Lincoln sold his soul to the devil. Sold his soul? Sucked soul. Lincoln wants to use these Waxworths. He has to feed them victims to give them enough power to bring them to life so he can take over the world. Yeah, it's like, whoa! Yeah, it's like, holy, even explaining it is like, what the hell? Mark and Sarah hatch a plan to burn down the Waxworth, and that's where we're going to end it. If you want to see what happens with Mark and Sarah and the Waxworth, keep watching. This movie is just basically tons of fun. Tons of 80s, horror, camp, fantasy, fun. This is fantasy. It pays tribute to all these classic horror movies. The Wolfman in there we have, Vampires we have. The Mummy. The Mummy, there's a zombie little thing that happens. Wax, wrapped in a different type of story. And they're all done better than most movies are done now. Within like 5 or 10 minutes per little scene. The practical effects are awesome in this movie. Oh yeah, for sure. It's like an anthology movie, there's all these little stories, but there's still a big overall story, a big plot. So it's like a good combo between those kind of 80s style anthology creep show. But with the big story arc that kind of wraps everything together in a nice package. Nice neat little package. The characters are pretty neat because like for example the main character, Mark, he starts off as this kind of rich little prick. Not really a prick, he's not really an asshole, but he's just kind of like he gets everything he wants. But then in the end he kind of becomes the hero. There's character development. Yeah, like the character of Sarah for example, she's kind of like the timid, quiet girl, but in the end you find out she's completely different. She's in that mucky desod. She's all being whipped and she's all into it, whipped to orgasm. It's like whoa, keep going. The fact that they were able to get all of the characters across to the viewer is amazing in such a short amount of time. And you see them hanging out at the school and stuff and there's not a whole lot of dialogue and everything but you know right away almost everything about her. Who's who, who likes who, who's jealous of who, all that kind of stuff. And you get the sense that they're all very close friends too and they do it in such a short amount of time which is great. If you haven't seen the movie we're not going to wreck the ending for you but it is one hell of a kind of final act. It's just mayhem and madness and you get to see all sorts of crazy shit go down. You get to see Patrick McNean some special war wheelchair and old men being killed and stabbed and explosions and whippings and it's just wild. So if you're a fan of basically 80s fantasy horror camp movies you know stuff like Monster Squad. Tons of fun, it's colorful and it's written very well and the effects are great, the characters are awesome and it's fun. It's just a fun movie. And that's really what we enjoy is a fun movie and you get a thumbs up from us. And until next time...