Behind-the-scenes production of horror wax museum

This film is the first film by Spanish director jaume serra, produced by joel silver and robert zemeckis, and remake from 1953.

The film is co-produced by Australian country road show film company, Warner Bros. and The Dark Castle Company.

Make wax figures

When building the wax museum, the staff used 20 tons of wax. In order to debug the melting effect of wax figure at high temperature, the staff studied different kinds of wax and found the correct composition that changed shape immediately after touching. The four main scenes of the wax museum: the living room, the concert hall, the kitchen and the basement workshop are all the same.

The crew also invited special effects makeup artist Jason Bader to design and make all the wax figures in the film. The dead in the wax figure are made of fiberglass and silicon. In particular, the film produced four "real" wax figures: two women dressed in costumes of the Taimei era, a gentleman sitting smoking a cigar, and a maid cleaning the kitchen.

Build a small town

The film was shot in Warner Roadshow Studio in Queensland, Australia, and Guanaba, 45 minutes' drive from the studio, was chosen as the location. Led by director Jim, photographer Steve Winton and artist Graham Walker, the crew set up the main set.

The craftsmen of the crew spent 65,438+00 weeks building Ambrose Town on a 3-acre farm, digging ditches to divert water and laying cables. Two and a half miles of underground cables ensure that 750 lighting lamps can be used freely in shooting. Along the main street of the town, Walker's team also built a gas station, a cinema, a barber shop, a grocery store, a pet shop and some old houses. At the end of the road, there are churches, cemeteries and wax museums built on the mountain.