Could you perhaps be referring to Vincent Price's 1953 film "House of
Wax?" or the earlier 1933 version "Mysteries of the Wax Museum?"  It's
got the plot you're describing.


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!
> >
>