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Released
1988 · FILM

Waxwork

A carefree college heir and his new girlfriend attend a bizarre wax museum exhibit, only to discover its cursed displays bring history’s deadliest villains to life; now they must outwit the murderous mannequins and save their missing friends before the terror becomes permanent.

“Stop on by and give afterlife a try.”

Directed by
Anthony Hickox
Written by
Anthony Hickox
Runtime
97 min
ComedyHorror
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Mark, a wealthy slacker college student, along with his new girlfriend Sarah and their friends, is invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum that features 18 of the most evil men in history. When Mark's ex-girlfriend and another friend go missing, he begins to suspect something is wrong.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christopher CibelliShot by Gerry LivelyScored by Roger BellonDesigned by Gianni Quaranta

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$808K

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$808K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Reise zurück in der Zeitde
  • Waxwork - Reise zurück in der Zeitde

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