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TARLETON STATE — Horror movie fans are invited to a free screening of the 1933 classic thriller film, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, when the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas hosts its next installment of Night at the Opera House.
The center, a Tarleton State University museum and research facility, screens the movie at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, inside the museum theater located in the historic ghost town of Thurber. Free refreshments will be served during a brief intermission.
The Mystery of the Wax Museum is acclaimed as a great early horror film released in by Warner Brothers and Vitaphone, and demonstrates one of the last commercial uses of the Technicolor two-strip process. The film was actually thought to have been lost until the early 1960s.
An unorthodox mix of coffins, comedy and makeup that may just be the last word in gruesomeness, this treatise in hyper-weirdness concerns an insane wax modeler bent on murder and mayhem. The creepy cast features Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell as the wisecracking sob sister.
In the film, Ivan Igor (Atwill) is a wax sculptor who runs a small museum in London, his work is critically acclaimed but fails to attract the crowds who are drawn to rival wax works showing gory horrors. Igor’s business partner decides the only way to recoup his money is to burn down the museum for its insurance value. Igor tries to stop him but ends up getting stuck inside the raging inferno. A decade later in New York City, a badly crippled Igor is opening a new museum of wax works, but his arrival coincides with several mysterious disappearances from the city morgue that pique the interest of newspaper reporter Florence Dempsey.
Seating for the upcoming Night at the Opera House is limited, and visitors are encouraged to RSVP by contacting Shae Adams at 254-968-1886 or gordoncenter@tarleton.edu.
The W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas is located at Exit 367 on Interstate 20 between Fort Worth and Abilene.
The center is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. For more information, visit www.tarleton.edu/gordoncenter or the museum’s Facebook page.
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