Waxwork
Movie • 1988 • Horror
ReportWealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.
This movie contains 29 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Is there excessive gore?
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Corellon
(see section on torture, lots of closeups)
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
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No but someone mentions being drugged with acid.
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Is there addiction?
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Alcoholism is mentioned.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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ValkyrieCain
Someone is mentioned to be a recovering alcoholic. There is drinking on screen in the scene before the main characters go to the museum.
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Animal
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ValkyrieCain
A vampire transforms into a bat and is shot. Also two werewolves die.
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Are there spiders?
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In the Egyptian Tomb scene, the lid to a giant coffin is pushed off, and immediately there's a closeup of a giant spider on the corpse's face.
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Are there snakes?
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GwendolynCox
A snake crawls up someone's shirt (over the clothes) in the Egyptian tomb
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Assault
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If you think it is assault or not depends on how you feel about the framing device. In history de Sade was a very bad person, but what we see on screen can be read as consensual or not. Before the friend breaks in she is begging for more, than when her friend reminds her they are in the Waxwork she wants to leave because of the context instead of the whipping itself. I hope I described it well enough so folks can make an informed choice on if they want to watch the movie.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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When a detective investigates the museum he removes some of a woman's face with a knife.
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Is there cannibalism?
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estonia76
A woman eats what she thinks is steak tartare, but it turns out to be the leg meat of her fiancé.
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Is someone burned alive?
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It is the first thing you see at the beginning of the movie and features heavily at the end.
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Is someone buried alive?
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No but two people are sealed in a coffin.
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Is there amputation?
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The amputation is not shown on screen but a man is shown with the flesh of his leg removed off the bone
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Does a head get squashed?
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ValkyrieCain
Four times. A werewolf does it three times and a mummy does it once.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Probably more instances than this but a man scrapes his nails against a desk and blood is visible.
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Is someone tortured?
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GwendolynCox
Meat harvesting off live body in the vampire castle, whipping/lashing in De Sade's.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Someone is shot and then falls from a height to their death in a pool of liquid.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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GwendolynCox
An unrealistic monster baby? I would say no
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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ValkyrieCain
It is mentioned that people are kidnapped but in actuality they have not been.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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There are undead spirits that are trying to be brought back to life.
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Are there jump scares?
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There is a jumpscare at 1hr and 6mins exactly.
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Is someone possessed?
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ValkyrieCain
People are drawn against their will to the displays and a vampire uses hypnotic powers on someone.
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Gross
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Does someone spit?
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There's a scene where some gross dark liquid drips out of a mummy's mouth and onto someone else's face
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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No - release date is 1988
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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They are seen in passing.
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Mental Health
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No but someone asks to be hurt.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Alienea
There is body *horror*, but not body dysmorphia. There is no distress shown at the changes in form.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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ValkyrieCain
Two people are sealed in a sarcophagus with a corpse.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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ValkyrieCain
There is a minute and a half of solid strobe from 1hr 19 mins 50 seconds to 1hr 21 mins 25 seconds. It was so fast and intense that I couldn't look at my screen.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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GwendolynCox
Not really imo, but worth noting: A character with dwarfism is referred to as strange and his voice is teased, and a disabled character sacrifices theirself to allow ableds to escape.
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A teacher is doing a lesson on dictatorship, with the joke being that he is acting similar to Hitler. Swastikas are shown in the classroom setting
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Is there hate speech?
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ValkyrieCain
A woman is repeatedly called w***e and s**t by a violent man who threatens to kill her.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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GwendolynCox
Yes, some NSFW dialogue and implied pleasurable torture, but no nudity or sex scenes
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Someone is shot and then falls from a height to their death in a pool of liquid.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Constant throughout.
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Is there gun violence?
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At the end of the movie there is constant gun violence throughout the entire end scene.
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