#Waxworks werewolf movie#
As the teens (and other unsuspecting visitors) learn, one by one, the displays are actually time portals (as the movie puts it) that suck the unwary into their locales. While the displays seem normal enough - a collection of scenes of horror from throughout film history - there's actually more to them.
Of course, as you'd expect, things take a turn once the kids hit the museum. Invited, it should be noted, by the creepy proprietor David Lincoln (a delightfully evil David Warner). Mark sees one last chance to try and get the girl when all the friends are invited to a new Waxwork museum that's recently opened for a private showing. Mark pines for China, but the girl of his dreams is tired of his antics and wants "a real man". The film opens with a set of friends - Zach Galligan as Mark Loftmore, Deborah Foreman as Sarah Brightman, Michelle Johnson as China Webster, and Dana Ashbrook as Tony - hanging out at college, just being normal teens. The film isn't great, but what it lacks in production quality it more than makes up in zestful, go-for-broke glee at smashing all its monster toys together. It doesn't just collect Dracula and Frankenstein and the Mummy, though, but links in versions of just about every monster it can think of - the Phantom of the Opera, zombies, evil circus freaks, and even Audrey II - all for a wild, and delightful, mish-mash of monsters and horror. Waxwork, a low-budget monster cheapy from 1988, also goes for the joy of seeing all these monsters together.
Since then, the monsters have appeared, via various production companies, fighting against each other time and again (such as in the kids' movie The Monster Squad).
Universal understood this, crafting one of the first cinematic shared continuities starting with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. There's a certain appeal to seeing all of the classic movie monsters get together in a single film.
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