WAXWORKS MOVIE MIDGET HAIR ARCHIVE
The restoration is based on a tinted and toned 35mm vintage print on nitrate film held by the British Film Institute National Archive (BFI).ĭue to heavy decomposition of the print, parts of the film had to be taken from other film elements: a duplicate negative from the BFI and a vintage The film was digitized in 4K resolution and restoredin 2K in a cooperation project between Deutsche Kinematek and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. Of the English, French and Czech distribution versions are preserved. The original German version of the film has not survived. However, several text cards appear before the actual feature which contain the following relevant information: Waxworks by Paul Leni premiered in 1924 in Vienna. Eureka only sent a check disc for purposes of this review, and so I'm not privy to any verbiage about the transfer contained in the insertīooklet.
WAXWORKS MOVIE MIDGET HAIR 1080P
Waxworks is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Eureka! Entertainment's Masters of Cinema imprint with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer inġ.33:1. Jannings basically disappears underneath what must have been pounds of makeup, but ironically it's a rather gaunt looking Veidt who may make Traditional "horror" film, there is a rather unsettling ambience to the film which is only highlighted by the stylistic flourishes that Paul Leni offers. While probably best appreciated as something other than a Superimposed imagery that gives the film a deliberately surreal feeling wind up. The Jack the Ripper sequence is a weird, montage laden trip through Suffering from increasing paranoia playing into the proceedings. The Ivan the Terrible sequence is decidedly more serious, with hints of madness and mortality, with Ivan's twin sins of enjoying torture and Whimsical, but it's interesting to see it play out in what is at least a somewhat Abstract Expressionist framework, especially in terms of some of the Order to improve his finances, but in the meantime al-Rashid has become entranced by the baker's comely wife. The baker decides to steal al-Rashid's valuable ring in
The Harun al-Rashid episode deals withĪ baker (Dieterle) whose smoke causes problems for the ruler, putting the baker in jeopardy. The poet then imagines tales for the first two (the Jack the Ripper sequence was evidently an afterthought of sorts, and serves as a rather briefĬoda that is essentially a dream, or nightmare), and in fact becomes a character in those stories. Waxworks in order to write "back stories" for three of the characters on display, Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), Harun al-Rashid (Emil Jannings) Night's Dream, The Life of Emile Zola, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Devil and Daniel Webster. Hollywood, since a focal character uniting the three vignettes in Waxworks is played by William Dieterle, who emigrated to the UnitedĪnd directed a number of high profile films, including A Midsummer Renowned names as Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings and Werner Krauss, there may be a bit of "meta" interest for those interested in the Golden Age of While some of the supplements get into the iconic status of some of the German Abstract Expressionist actors who are in the film, including such
Even that descriptor may be a bit misleading,Īs some of the supplements included on this Blu-ray disc get into, since Waxworks, whose original German title was the somewhat moreīaroque Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, includes vignettes that are arguably not really in the horror idiom. There was a forebear of both of these films that appeared during the silent era and which didn't just help establish "wax museum" tropes, but whichĪlso helped to introduce audiences to what ultimately became known as a "horror anthology". Of the Wax Museum or its kinda sorta remake from 1953, House of Wax, when mentioning this admittedly kind of peculiar subgenre, but cineastes with an interest in world cinema will know that Probably think automatically of either 1933's Mystery What is it about wax dummies that make them such redolent "characters" in so many horror tinged films? Maybe it's their " doppelgänger"Īspect, or the fact that there is definitely something creepy about watching a wax face melt, as they are prone to do in at least some of the filmsįeaturing such mannequin like elements. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, March 12, 2021
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