Waxwork

Director: Anthony Hickox
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Cult, Black comedy, Monster movie, Fantasy, Creature Film, Haunted House Film, Horror Comedy, Zombie Film
Year: 1988
Country: United States of America, Germany
Language: English Language
Starring: Deborah Foreman, Zach Galligan, Miles O'Keeffe, Michelle Johnson, Patrick Macnee, David Warner, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Dana Ashbrook

Waxwork is a 1988 horror comedy film starring Zach Galligan and Deborah Foreman.

In a small suburban town, a group of college students visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Two of the students enter two separate waxwork displays, one depicting a forest scene and the other a Gothic castle, and are destroyed by a werewolf and Count Dracula respectively. Two of the other students, Mark and Sarah, leave the waxwork unscathed, but are chagrined by the disappearance of their friends. The disappearances continue, and extend to an investigating police detective, who is trapped and destroyed in an exhibit of The Mummy.

Mark takes Sarah to the attic of his house, where he shows her an old newspaper detailing the murder of his grandfather (which was seen in the prologue); the only suspect was David Lincoln, his chief assistant, whose photograph closely resembles the waxwork owner. The two then consult the wheelchair-bound Sir Wilfred, a friend of Mark's grandfather, who explains how he and Mark's grandfather collected trinkets from "eighteen of the most evil people who ever lived" and that

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