A bunch of college kids are on a road trip and they decide to camp when a large truck pulls up and saturates their campground with its headlights. They don't like that. The tough guy (Chad Michael Murray, who was better in Freaky Friday) throws a beer bottle and breaks a headlight. The truck leaves. Everyone goes to sleep until the next morning. Well, afternoon. They are college kids.
Then they realize that the fan belt on one of the cars is broken, so they need to go into town to get a replacement. That's when things start to get a little more interesting.
One of the girls (Elisha Cuthbert, who was better in The Girl Next Door) and her boyfriend decide to go into town.
They get a ride from a creepy guy who collects roadkill for a living. Or at least, he collects roadkill. It might be a hobby. They get creeped out from him, so they decide to walk the last little bit and finally get to town, where they can find only one person, who happens to run the gas station. Only he doesn't have the right size at the station, so they need to go to his house, where he has things delivered. Odd, don't you think?
And so begins the downward spiral. It seems the town is inhabited by only two living people - the owner of the gas station and his brother. They were actually Siamese twins, separated at birth by their father. Their mother was a wax artist. Now they are psychotic killers, who like to encase people in wax and display them in the House of Wax.
Not a wax museum, as you might think, but a building actually made of wax (that also houses wax figures). So the next hour or so is spent figuring this out and then resolving it. It's a lot less exciting than it sounds, if that tells you anything, though there are some nice gruesome shots.
Rated R for horror violence, some sexual content and language.
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