Mark tells Sarah that he recognizes the owner of the waxwork and takes her to the attic of his house, where he shows her an old newspaper detailing the murder of his grandfather (which was seen in the prologue) the only suspect was David Lincoln, his chief assistant, whose photograph closely resembles the waxwork owner. His partner, who was waiting outside, also enters and is killed by the giant butler, after which the owner berates him. He is then drawn into the Egyptian display, where he is attacked by a mummy and dumped into a sarcophagus. Roberts tells Mark to go home but later returns to the waxwork, where he takes a probe of China's face from the vampire display. In the exhibition, Roberts is especially attracted to the scene of an Egyptian tomb and is almost shoved into the scene by the owner. The next day, seeing that Tony and China still have not been found, Mark contacts Detective Roberts, who reluctantly agrees to have a look at the waxworks. The same night, China's current boyfriend, who is looking for her, sneaks into the Waxwork and ends up as the victim in the Phantom of the Opera exhibit. The two decide to leave and are told by the butler that the others have already left. Sarah is fascinated by a display of the Marquis de Sade, while Mark searches for the missing friends and interrupts Sarah just before she could enter the display. China flees down to the basement, where she manages to dispatch the intruding Stephan and four female vampires, but back in the dining room she falls victim to the hypnotic charm of the count, who sinks his teeth into her neck as the camera again retreats to reveal another display. She participates in a Victorian dinner, hosted by a a soft-spoken count, and is later attacked by the count's son, who reveals himself to be a vampire. Similarly, China is drawn into a waxwork of a mysterious caped figure. As the camera zooms out, it appears that the dead Tony has completed the scene in the display. Two hunters appear and shoot the werewolf and Tony, who is already turning into a werewolf himself. Tony drops his cigarette lighter into a forest display and stumbles across the felt rope, finding himself inside an actual forest, and is bitten by a werewolf. Hyde, Dracula, a cobra-like circus freak, the Invisible Man, one of the alien pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Jack the Ripper. Inside they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre, including a mad lumberjack axing a passerby to death, Frankenstein's monster, a voodoo houngan, Mr. That night James and Gemma are spooked and quickly leave, while the other four enter the waxwork, where they are welcomed by a diminutive butler and his giant companion who usher them to the exhibition. The two girls pick Mark Loftmore, a rebellious rich student and China's former boyfriend, and three other classmates - Tony, Gemma, and James. The owner invites two college students, Sarah and China, to attend that night with four more guests of their choice. In a small suburban town a wax museum appears, seemingly overnight. "Waxwork" is a 1988 horror/comedy film starring Zach Galligan and Deborah Foreman. Caption = Promotional movie poster for "Waxwork"
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