And Buddha knows that in this economy (tired of this phrase yet?), we have to stretch our video money until it can do the splits.
#Waxworks 1924 movie
It is as if you are getting more movie for your video money. There is something magical about watching a movie with various vignettes. If you didn’t like the first love story set in the mid-east, just wait five (or 30) minutes and you’ll be treated to the Ruskie-style torture fest of Ivan the Terrible! Not that into torture (you don’t like torture, what is wrong with you, sicko?), then take another 5 and be treated to the slap-happy-stabbings of good old Spring-heeled Jack… or as his disemboweled friends call him, Jack the Ripper. “Growing up in the balls-cold one minute, well-diggers-ass-hot the next mid-West, one learned to take comfort in the old adage “If you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes.” Such is the case in this week’s film “Waxworks,” which features not one but three semi-entertaining stories! Are the figures more than their waxy facades project? Will the poet woo his new lady fair? Or at the very least get a paycheck?įind out as we wax philosophical about the 1924 epic Waxworks. or is she? Reality begins to blur as the waxy figures seem to gain a twinkle to their eyes and the poet becomes increasingly lost in his own stories. He is told to start immediately coming up with tall tales about the star wax-heads of the exhibition - among whom are Haroun-Al-Raschid (Caliph of Baghdad), Ivan the Terrible and Spring-heeled Jack (aka Jack the Ripper)! As an added bonus the waxwork's elderly owner has a fetching young daughter who instantly gets the poet's creative juices flowing! Stories begin to pour effortlessly from the poet's pen as he weaves tale after tale, each (of course) starring his new beauty, himself and his waxy subjects.Īs the night oil burns the poet feverishly presses on, with his new love interest becoming more interested in him page after page. So if you think schlocking publicity for a wax museum is bad, imagine what the poet could have ended up with if they had craigslist back then!įaster than you can say "HR", our boy gets the job and is well on his way to becoming a carny. The point is, we've all had some strange jobs.
#Waxworks 1924 skin
What writer down on his luck wouldn't jump at the chance to work in a "waxworks exhibition"?!? Especially one located in a carnival! Shucks, in Nick's darker employment days he worked at a hot dog skin factory (don't ask) and Chris onced stooped so low as to peddle paragraphs for an online teenager gossip website (though, in his defense, it was related to the show LOST). This week's film, the 1924 epic Waxworks, begins with our main character "the poet" in need of a job and finding a lead - you guessed it - in the classifieds: Now, more than ever people are turning to the classifieds as a time-trusted keeper of coveted salary steeds - apparently things haven't changed much since 1924. Where one turns when they have a couch they'd like to rid themselves of, are in need of housing or someone who "understands" you.
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