Waxwork II Lost In
Time (1992)
PLOT -The
waxwork from the original film has now burnt down with all the
monsters inside. Mark and Sara escape but unfortunately for them a
severed hand crawled out of the flames shortly before everything
burned down to the ground. Shaken by what happened, Sara goes home
only to witness her stepfather brutally murdered by the stalking hand
and then becomes convicted for his death. Trying his hardest to prove
she's innocent, Mark returns to Sir Wilfred's house for answers only
to discover a time traveling compass that transports them to several
different horror filled worlds.
LOW DOWN – Just
last week I re-discovered the 1988 very underrated horror classic
Waxwork. Falling in love with the fun of this movie I
decided to give the sequel a try and bought it for very cheap off
Amazon as a double feature with the original. Anthony Hickox
returns to the director chair, clearly establishing his style
and trying to bring things to a whole new level with this continued
story. Zach Galligan also returns as our leading hero
Mark, but sadly Deborah Foreman did not return as Sara,
making way for new actress Monika Schnarre who is very
pretty but doesn't give the magic Deborah did in the previous movie.
This movie deals with time travel versus the whole waxwork display
thing. It's both a positive and a negative for this movie. I could
tell Mr. Hickox was trying for something very original here and if
this movie had been successful who knows how many more films would
have been made to show Mark and Sara's adventures. This movie had
NOTHING to do with wax, it was mostly time travel and following these
two characters into even stranger places while still paying tribute
to some really awesome movies. I feel it didn't capture the magic the
original did with all the different stories and worlds we're taken
to, but still it was a very original idea and was acutely very well
written. I think Hickox wanted to make a movie about time travel and
decided to just tack it onto the Waxwork series. This movie was even
known for a while as simply Lost In Time trying to make
it a standalone film. Now trust me, this movie took a very odd
direction but still had plenty of charm. The soundtrack/score really
made a lot of the scenes, as did the comical adventure like elements
and some pretty awesome cameos such as Bruce Campbell,
and believe it or not Drew Barrymore. Yes the movie
dragged at parts, and did seem a little scattered and all over the
place, but I think it was the characters and the cool direction that
kept this from being a complete train wreck. I also sorta didn't
understand the ending, but I believe that what they were going for
was to leave it open ended for a part three. Sadly it never happened.
Waxwork II is a fun movie, not as good as the original
but still a very good time and worth checking out!
Three stars!
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