While this film invites comparison to House of Wax, this film is totally it's own, while House of Wax was a remake of a 1930' s film. The crew of House of Wax sort of stayed together to do this one. Both films were originally in 3D. Both films have the same director.
What is interesting here is that the women in the cast at ages 23 (Mary Murphy Karen Lee) and 35 Ava Gabor (Claire Ormond) are younger than the males in the cast, the film focus is so much on magic that you hardly notice the women.
The plot involves Price as the mad magician(Don Gallico / Gallico the Great) who people seem to keep stealing his trick from him. So he gets upset with these thieves and starts killing them. Then he develops masks of these deceased people he has killed including (John Emery -The Great Rinaldi) and keeps them alive performing as them on stage. Meanwhile, Price's own persona seems gentle and kind to humanity.
Ava Gabor (Claire Ormond) plays Prices Ex-Wife, stolen from him by a rich man (Donald Randolph ...Ross Ormond ) that Price kills while she is overseas spending all of his money. She comes back, gets wise to the hidden death of her husband, and gets murdered by Price to continue the cover up. As the tricks pile up, a police detective who uses finger prints to catch killers, catches on to Prices plot. (Patrick O'Neal). The unmasking has a really hot conclusion.
While it is not House of Wax, the cast is literally stacked with people that were in a lot of 1950's Sci-Fi films.
What is interesting here is that the women in the cast at ages 23 (Mary Murphy Karen Lee) and 35 Ava Gabor (Claire Ormond) are younger than the males in the cast, the film focus is so much on magic that you hardly notice the women.
The plot involves Price as the mad magician(Don Gallico / Gallico the Great) who people seem to keep stealing his trick from him. So he gets upset with these thieves and starts killing them. Then he develops masks of these deceased people he has killed including (John Emery -The Great Rinaldi) and keeps them alive performing as them on stage. Meanwhile, Price's own persona seems gentle and kind to humanity.
Ava Gabor (Claire Ormond) plays Prices Ex-Wife, stolen from him by a rich man (Donald Randolph ...Ross Ormond ) that Price kills while she is overseas spending all of his money. She comes back, gets wise to the hidden death of her husband, and gets murdered by Price to continue the cover up. As the tricks pile up, a police detective who uses finger prints to catch killers, catches on to Prices plot. (Patrick O'Neal). The unmasking has a really hot conclusion.
While it is not House of Wax, the cast is literally stacked with people that were in a lot of 1950's Sci-Fi films.