The sensuous and alluring Belajeff admires herself in a mirror, provoking her baker husband to cup her breasts with his dough-kneading hands. One of the reasons I enjoyed this particular scene is that it was one of the few times when The Mummy was a frightening monster. And the scene where the detective investigating the Waxwork is absorbed into the world of The Mummy was in and of itself great. Enemies appear from time to time and must be defeated using the various weapons found in the game. So this movie's heart was definitely in the right place also. The player explores maze-like locations, manipulating objects and solving puzzles. In his introduction to Waxworks, composer and silent film accompanist Neil Brand claims that the film was a groundbreaker when it came to sex. WaxWorks is a hybrid game that combines elements of role-playing and adventure.
His first story transports us to the world of the Arabian Nights, in which Harun, the Capliph of Baghdad falls in lust with a baker’s wife (Olga Belajeff) and attempts to bed her while her husband (Dieterle) is on a mission to prove his manhood by stealing Harun’s wishing-ring. The film opens with a writer (William Dieterle) visiting a funfair, where he accepts a job offer from a waxworks showman to write stories about three of his exhibits: Harun Al-Rashid (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss). Darren Lynn Bousman (The Night Billy Raised Hell) Adam Gierasch (Trick) Paul Solet (The Weak and the Wicked) Axelle Carolyn (Grim Grinning Ghost) Lucky McKee (Ding Dong) Andrew Kasch and John Skipp (This Means War) Mike Mendez (Friday the 31st) Ryan Schifrin (The Ransom of Rusty Rex) Neil Marshall (Bad Seed) Grace Phipps. Waxworks does not have the eerie power of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, the 1919 trailblazer that featured similar sets and one of the same actors (Conrad Veidt), but it is more obviously aimed at entertaining its audience, with memorable star performances, flamboyant production design, striking technical effects and humour. Tony is at a cabin where a werewolf attacks him. Tony and China enter two separate waxwork displays. Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) has been called the first portmanteau horror film, in which three tales are told via a framing device, paving the way. Showing as part of the online Cambridge Film Festival in a digitally recombined and restored version, this silent German Expressionist classic is more fantasy than horror. In a small suburban town, a group of college students 'Mark, China, Gemma, James, Tony, and Sarah' visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) and Tales from the Crypt (1972).
Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) has been called the first portmanteau horror film, in which three tales are told via a framing device, paving the way for such anthology films as Dead of Night (1945), Dr. Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) was the final film Paul Leni directed in Germany before striking out for Hollywood, where he made such classic genre.
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