Museum of Wax (1987)

The black-and-white, silent short, Museum of Wax (1981-1987), is the more classically structured of Ludlam’s recovered films. Fluently adopting a silent-era cinematic language, the vaudevillian narrative follows an escaped prisoner (Ludlam) who seeks refuge in a Coney Island wax museum. The set-up is a clever ploy to involve the rows of wax puppets (and boxes of celebrity heads) in a whimsical deracination of gender conventions.

Released

1987-04-30

Genres

Comedy, Horror

Runtime

21 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Charles Ludlam

TMDB rating

1.0/10 from 2 votes