Waxworks (band)
Waxwork or waxworks may refer to: * Wax museum, a museum for a collection of wax figures * Wax sculpture * ''Celastrus scandens'', a plant in the family Celastraceae * ''Waxwork'' (film), a 1988 comedy/horror film **'' Waxwork II: Lost in Time'', a sequel * ''Waxworks'' (film), a 1924 German silent film * ''Waxworks'' (1983 video game), a 1983 computer game for the Commodore 64 by Molimerx * ''Waxworks'' (1992 video game), a 1992 computer game for the Amiga and PC by HorrorSoft * '' Waxworks: Some Singles 1977–1982'', a compilation by the band XTC * '' Waxworks (band)'', a Sydney post-punk and alternative band from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s See also * ''Wax Works A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubbe ...

Wax Museum
A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubbed the " Chamber of Horrors", in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Some collections are more specialized, as, for example, collections of wax medical models once used for training medical professionals. Many museums or displays in historical houses that are not wax museums as such use wax figures as part of their displays. The origin of wax museums goes back to the early 18th century at least, and wax funeral effigies of royalty and some other figures exhibited by their tombs had essentially been tourist attractions well before that. History before 1800 The making of life-size wax figures wearing real clothes grew out of the funeral practices of European royalty. In the Middle Ages it was the habit to carry the corpse, fully dr ...
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Wax Sculpture
A wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance. Often these are effigies, usually of a notable individual, but there are also death masks and scenes with many figures, mostly in relief. The properties of beeswax make it an excellent medium for preparing figures and models, either by modeling or by casting in molds. It can easily be cut and shaped at room temperature, melts at a low temperature, mixes with any coloring matter, takes surface tints well, and its texture and consistency may be modified by the addition of earthy matters and oils or fats. When molten, it is highly responsive to impressions from a mold and, once it sets and hardens, its form is relatively resilient against ordinary temperature variations, even when it is cast in thin laminae. These properties have seen wax used for modelling since the Middle Ages and there is testimony for it having been used for making masks (particularly death masks) in ancient Rome. The death masks of illustrious anc ...
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Celastrus Scandens
''Celastrus scandens'', commonly called American bittersweet or bittersweet, is a species of ''Celastrus'' that blooms mostly in June and is commonly found on rich, well-drained soils of woodlands. It is a sturdy perennial vine that may have twining, woody stems that are or longer and an inch or more thick at the base. The stems are yellowish-green to brown and wind around other vegetation, sometimes killing saplings by restricting further growth. It has tiny, scentless flowers at the tips of the branches. It has colorful, orange fruits that are the size of a pea. These fruits are poisonous to humans when ingested, but are favorites of birds. ''C. scandens'' roots were used by Native Americans and pioneers to induce vomiting, to treat venereal disease, and to treat symptoms of tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect o ...
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Waxwork (film)
''Waxwork'' is a 1988 American comedy horror film written and directed by Anthony Hickox in his directorial film debut and starring Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Dana Ashbrook, and Patrick Macnee. It is partially inspired by the 1924 German silent film '' Waxworks''. Plot In a small suburban town, a group of college students—Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan), China Webster ( Michelle Johnson), Sarah Brightman (Deborah Foreman), Gemma (Clare Carey), James ( Eric Brown) and Tony (Dana Ashbrook)--visit a mysterious wax museum, resulting from Sarah and China's earlier encounter with a taciturn gentleman (Warner) who claims to own the exhibit and extends them an invitation. There, they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Tony and China unintentionally enter two separate pocket dimensions, as depicted by the displays, by crossing the exhibition barrier rope. Tony is at a cabin where a werewol ...
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Lost In Time
Lost in Time may refer to: Film, television, and video games * ''Lost in Time'' (video game), a 1993 video game *'' Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time'', a 1999 video game * ''Lost in Time'' (2003 film), a Hong Kong film * ''Lost in Time'' (2019 film), a Kenyan film * ''Lost in Time'' (Doctor Who), a 2004 ''Doctor Who'' DVD set * "Lost in Time" (''The Sarah Jane Adventures''), a 2010 ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' episode * "Lost in Time" (''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu''), a 2017 ''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu'' episode *"Dunces and Dragons", alternate title "Lost in Time", episode of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' Music * ''Lost in Time'' (Akino album), 2007 * ''Lost in Time'' (Eric Benét album), 2010 *''Lost in Time'', a 2012 album by Khuli Chana *''Lost in Time – The Early Years of Nocturnal Rites'', a 2005 compilation double album by Nocturnal Rites Nocturnal Rites is a Swedish power metal band formed in 1990. Biography The band started off under the name ''Necronomic'' ...
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Waxworks (film)
''Waxworks'' (german: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni. The film encompasses several genres, including a fantasy adventure, a historical film, and a horror film through its various episodes. Its stories are linked by a plot thread about a writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in order to boost business. The film's format may have influenced later horror anthologies such as the British ''Dead of Night'' (1945) and the Italian ''Black Sabbath'' (1963) by Mario Bava. Critic Troy Howarth mentions "Of all the later horror anthologies, it seems to have had the most direct effect on Amicus' '' Torture Garden'' (1968), which reused the waxworks motif". The film was also known as ''Three Wax Men''. The 1924 silent film supposedly inspired a 1988 "r ...
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Waxworks (1983 Video Game)
''Waxworks'' is an interactive fiction game by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden. It was published by Digital Fantasia in 1983 for the Commodore 64, Plus/4, ZX Spectrum, and BBC Micro. It was the 11th game in the Mysterious Adventures series. The story is about a waxworks in which the protagonist is trapped. Escaping involves finding statues of famous people (like Hillary and Tenzing). Whilst some of the statues are exceptionally easy to identify, others are not so simple without acquiring the necessary clues earlier in the game. For example, identifying the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George is exceptionally problematic without first finding a clue to his whereabouts. Reception ''CRASH'' magazine reviewed ''Waxworks'' in the July 1984 issue. The text parser was described as "eccentric" but with "some noteworthy flexibility", being a modified verb/noun form that also allows adverbs and conjunctions ("QUICKLY GET THE LAMP, SWORD, CLOAK AND STAFF", for example). The graph ...
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Waxworks (1992 Video Game)
''Waxworks'' is a Horror fiction, horror-themed first-person dungeon crawl video game developed by Adventure Soft, Horror Soft and released in 1992 for Amiga, Macintosh, and DOS. ''Waxworks'' was inspired by the 1988 film ''Waxwork (film), Waxwork''. Gameplay ''Waxworks'' is a first-person dungeon crawl role-playing video game. The game is divided into five time periods: Ancient Egypt, Medieval Transylvania, Victorian England, an industrial mine period and Ixona's period. Three of those time periods have a mixture of puzzle-solving and combat, while the Victorian England and Ixona ones are more puzzle-solving oriented. The levels may be completed in any order, except for Ixona's period, which must be done last. Once a time period is completed, the player is reset to Level (video games), level one and loses all Item (game terminology), items and weapons, which do not transfer to other levels. The player levels up in each time period by defeating enemies, solving puzzles and exp ...
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Some Singles 1977–1982
Some may refer to: *''some'', an English word used as a determiner and pronoun; see use of ''some'' *The term associated with the existential quantifier *"Some", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album ''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' *Socialist-oriented market economy, the Vietnamese economic system occasionally abbreviated SOME *Social market economy, the German socioeconomic model abbreviated SOME *So Others Might Eat (SOME), a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization *SoMe, short for social media * ''Some'' (film), a 24 film * "Some" (song), a duet by Junggigo and Soyou *Some & Any Some & Any was a German pop duo, formed during the eighth season of the German television talent show '' Popstars''. The group consisted of then-18-year-old Vanessa Meisinger and 20-year-old half-Brazilian, half-Swiss Leonardo Ritzmann. The seas ...

Waxworks (band)
Waxwork or waxworks may refer to: * Wax museum, a museum for a collection of wax figures * Wax sculpture * ''Celastrus scandens'', a plant in the family Celastraceae * ''Waxwork'' (film), a 1988 comedy/horror film **'' Waxwork II: Lost in Time'', a sequel * ''Waxworks'' (film), a 1924 German silent film * ''Waxworks'' (1983 video game), a 1983 computer game for the Commodore 64 by Molimerx * ''Waxworks'' (1992 video game), a 1992 computer game for the Amiga and PC by HorrorSoft * '' Waxworks: Some Singles 1977–1982'', a compilation by the band XTC * '' Waxworks (band)'', a Sydney post-punk and alternative band from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s See also * ''Wax Works A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubbe ...