Steve
Executioner
As a holiday treat, I wanted to do something different while trying out a new art technique. I thought of scenes from classic movies or television shows that have influenced the genre over the years where, for various reasons, it was left up to our imaginations what was either happening or what we think should have happened.
Here are three illustrations depicting the climactic scene from the 1953 classic HOUSE OF WAX, which @wulf posted about not too long ago.
For those who do not know the setup: it is early 20th century New York City, and brilliant wax sculptor, Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price), is nearly killed by his business associate who burned his wax museum to the ground. Horribly disfigured, Jarrod wears a wax mask to hide his horrific appearance and reopens his wax museum. But because the fire mangled his hands, he can no longer create his beautiful wax figures from scratch. Instead, he either steals bodies from the morgue or kills people and have the corpses covered in wax to create his new figures. Jarrod is enrapt by Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk), the fiancé of his protégé, who reminds Jarrod of his destroyed magnus opus wax figure Marie Antoinette. Jarrod kidnaps Sue and straps her to a wooden table to pour boiling wax over her to create his new Marie Antoinette. Will the police arrive in time to save Sue from a gruesome death?
Here are three illustrations depicting the climactic scene from the 1953 classic HOUSE OF WAX, which @wulf posted about not too long ago.
For those who do not know the setup: it is early 20th century New York City, and brilliant wax sculptor, Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price), is nearly killed by his business associate who burned his wax museum to the ground. Horribly disfigured, Jarrod wears a wax mask to hide his horrific appearance and reopens his wax museum. But because the fire mangled his hands, he can no longer create his beautiful wax figures from scratch. Instead, he either steals bodies from the morgue or kills people and have the corpses covered in wax to create his new figures. Jarrod is enrapt by Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk), the fiancé of his protégé, who reminds Jarrod of his destroyed magnus opus wax figure Marie Antoinette. Jarrod kidnaps Sue and straps her to a wooden table to pour boiling wax over her to create his new Marie Antoinette. Will the police arrive in time to save Sue from a gruesome death?
