Could you be thinking of Horror in the Wax Museum, the old Vinny Price
film?  This theme has actually been used numerous times in film and on
television.  In fact, there was a TV show on within the last couple of
weeks which used the same plot device.  Unfortunately, I can't remember
which one it was - X-Files, Outer Limits, or something else altogether...

On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Mark Erik Nielsen wrote:

> OK, anyone remember that one about the artist who made these lifelike
> human figures that became very popular before someone realised that those
> missing people were actually under the clay?
> Anyone remember the name of this film?
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, J. Golden wrote:
>
> > I don't recall a book of exhibits coming alive but I do remember an
> > awful, low budget horror movie several years ago that had a similar
> > plot.  The movie was called "Waxwork" and it was about a group of
> > teenagers who go to their freindly neighborhood wax museum at midnight
> > for a special viewing of the exhibits.  Each teenager is magically
> > transported into the exhibits and ends up living in the horror scene that
> > each portrays.  After each character is killed by the subject of the
> > exhibits (e.g. a werewolf, Dracula), they become part of the exhibit and
> > future visitors remark on the incredible realness of the new wax figures!
> >
>


Chris J.-Andersen ([log in to unmask])

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