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He represents everything that Sarah keeps deep down, every urge she won’t let herself feel. He’s the face of pleasure and pain intertwined, in fact, he’s where the term sadism originated from. He was famous for sexual liberation so extreme that it frequently resulted in death. Sarah is completely taken, even smitten, with the Marquis de Sade. Yet with Sarah, it’s not a classic literary monster that captures her attention, but a monster of historical significance. The sex-driven China is captivated by the Count, even as a wax figure, and so she steps in to get a better look. Most of the characters see something in a particular exhibit in the waxwork that lures them into the world of that monster.

She plays to that repression, what it really means, and what hidden desires might be lurking just underneath it. But Hickox uses her to explore that very character type and what it means. At first glimpse she’s almost a stock character. She is in a lot of ways the typical repressed virgin. Where Waxwork gets really interesting, though, is in the characterization of its heroine, Sarah (played by Deborah Foreman). For such an FX-heavy production, it’s impressive to see that everything from the werewolves down to the man-eating plants appear to be handled with equal care. Decapitations and eviscerations abound, as well as a very inventive use of a wine rack, and Keen handles these sequences just as well as the monsters. Generally a horror film with a more fantasy-based premise will shy away from gore, but Waxwork has no interest in doing that.

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