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Figures de cire

191411 minFrance
Horror

Synopsis

After claiming that he does not know fear, Pierre accepts a wager to spend the night in a wax museum. The still figures gradually unsettle him, and the locked doors make departure impossible. A friend's arrival in the darkness turns the test of courage toward a disastrous misunderstanding.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
10:37
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Maurice Tourneur · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsMaurice Tourneur

Inspirations

Maurice Tourneur draws on André de Lorde's story and its Grand Guignol stage origins. The museum's arranged bodies allow theatrical horror and the character's imagination to reinforce one another.

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