Elisha Cuthbert

Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend, Wade (Jared Padalecki), have hit the road with a handful of their friends to attend a championship college football game; tagging along with them are Carly’s bratty friend Paige (Paris Hilton), Carly’s trouble-making twin brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray), Nick’s annoying but funny best friend Dalton (Jon Abrahams), and Blake (Robert Ri’chard), Paige’s boyfriend. While camping out for the night, the gang makes the mistake of getting on the wrong side of a mysterious local redneck, and the next morning they discover that Wade’s car no longer works. As the others continue on to the big game, Carly and Wade make their way into the closest town, Ambrose, and discover it’s all but deserted, except for a local tourist attraction, the titular House of Wax. Meanwhile Paige and her boyfriend, Blake, make love which was however interrupted by the freak killer. However, it isn’t long before Carly find out why the wax sculptures at the museum look so freakishly real, and discover a pair of murderous brothers are keen on making them part of the next exhibit.

The teenagers spend the entire movie running from the brothers until eventually all are killed except for Carly and Nick. There is a big showdown in the wax museum, climaxing in the death of the murderous brothers and the destruction of the entire museum. Finally, when Carly and Nick are rescued it is revealed that there were actually three brothers, sons of the wax artist who founded the town. On the way out of the town, they spot the driver who had tried to warn them away at the beginning.

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