Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
"The supreme thriller!"
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 92%
(RT: 92%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Glenda Farrell as Florence Dempsey
Allen Vincent as Ralph Burton
Fay Wray as Charlotte Duncan
Frank McHugh as Jim
Edwin Maxwell as Worth
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Professor Darcy
Gavin Gordon as George Winton
Is Mystery of the Wax Museum good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 159 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 92%.
Overview
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating. Wikipedia ↗
