1/18/2024 0 Comments Waxworks 2 cast“We’d run out of teeth,” he says, adding that they’re just white chocolates stuck to her lip.Ģ6. Even China’s (Michelle Johnson) vampire teeth are embarrassing to him. The miniature house model is especially grating to him ‐ even more so in HD. The completion bond issues mentioned above forced him to make multiple compromises, and he hates how small it all feels. Hickox is really down on the film’s ending. It looked “horrible, preposterous” in real life ‐ “I looked like Jared Leto in Suicide Squad” ‐ but it looked good on screen.Ģ5. Matt Dillon’s hair was apparently dyed purple for filming the black & white film Rumble Fish, so they tried something similar here for the Night of the Living Dead segment. ![]() It happened here, and his four days of planned time-hopping action had to be minimized to a single day. Hickox’s father had always told him never wait to shoot the end of your film last because you will usually run out of money or time. He doesn’t say why, but he got his revenge by making two back to back Dolph Lundgren movies instead.Ģ3. The director mentions that he “was meant to do” 1999’s The Mummy “but didn’t get” the job. The pic below is from a later scene, but the point is Foreman is a terrific actress.Ģ2. Hickox ‐ inexplicably ‐ thinks he didn’t succeed in making Foreman look sexy in the attic sequence where she’s sweaty and clenching the fabric of her dress. Galligan had the most trouble with the scene where he pretends to be sick in order to get Sarah ( Deborah Foreman) out of class. The Teamsters occasionally heckled the production by shining mirrors in the actors’ faces as a protest for the film being a non-union production.Ģ0. He recalls catching the movie on USA’s Up All Night once and hearing host Gilbert Gottfried say “We’ll be right back with Waxwork starring Zach Galligan after forty cheeseburgers.”ġ9. Galligan hates that Hickox made him tuck his shirt in for the scene where his character leads the police into the wax museum. The blue dress glimpsed behind Galligan at the police station at the 46:30 mark is a nod to Crimes of Passion.ġ8. Galligan asks if there were any horror/sci-fi classics Hickox wishes he could have crammed into the film, and the director says he would have loved to add Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The human flesh being eaten at the vampire dinner is actually made of rhubarb, watermelon, and strawberries.ġ6. The guy who gets ripped in half by the werewolf is played by Hickox’s brother.ġ5. He asked Bob Keen, the film’s head of makeup design, for a Howling-like werewolf.ġ4. Some of his films include Zulu Dawn, Brannigan, and Theatre of Blood.ġ3. Hickox’s father, Douglas, was a director as well. The werewolf exteriors were shot in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park.ġ2. The vampire sequence originally came before the werewolf one, but they swapped them as the latter serves as a better introduction into the workings of the film’s conceit.ġ1. “Hold your breath for fuck’s sake,” adds Hickox.ġ0. They point out that the actors playing the wax figures are doing a pretty poor job of staying still. Mihaly ‘Michu’ Meszaros, who plays the diminutive butler Hans, is also featured on the album cover for The Doors’ Strange Days.ĩ. This will be a recurring theme in his commentary.Ĩ. Galligan recalls thinking that he was “fat and overweight” during the film but feels better about it now. The result was a heavily truncated end battle.ħ. Well, not until the completion bond people arrived saying they were out of money and needed to wrap it up. ![]() This was Hickox’s first feature, but he was never nervous during production. ![]() The house used as the waxwork’s exterior is still there, but the owner has grown a hedge around it to make it less visible and discourage Waxwork fans from looking for photo ops.ĥ. They were turned down by every studio they approached, including Vestron, but once the company’s head read the script he reversed the decision and made it a Vestron production.Ĥ. The driver, Staffan Ahrenberg ( Jersey Girl, The Quiet American), was looking for a script to produce, so Hickox wrote Waxwork over four days and the pair moved forward.ģ. Hickox got his shot at making his first movie after visiting Los Angeles and crashing into another car. Galligan’s character name, Mark Loftmore, was chosen because it sounded “very rich.”Ģ. “A good casting director is the most important thing in a movie.” Waxwork (1988)Ĭommentator: Anthony Hickox (writer/director), Zach Galligan (actor)ġ.
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