House of Wax

"The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula."

"House of Wax is not a good movie but it is an efficient one, and will deliver most of what anyone attending House of Wax could reasonably expect, assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much."

"The characters are about as intelligent as their waxen alter-egos, making it impossible to care too much about what happens to them."

"The debut feature from director Jaume Collet-Serra does two things rare in the horror genre: It takes its time and it actually gets better as it goes along."

"Makes up for its idiot plot with a gallon of gore."

"A museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks."

"Hilton runs the gamut of emotions from A to A-minus, and the others look desperate to forget that this dazzlingly dumb debacle will be on their resumes."

"The original was shot in 3-D; this, by contrast, is 1-D all the way."

"You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom."

"It can't hold a candle to its predecessor."