House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre DeToth.
A remake of Warner Bros.' Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933, the film stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays.
It premiered in New York on April 10, 1953, and had a general release on April 25.