WAXWORK

released OUT NOW! 1988 | 18 | Blu-ray

Though it dials up the gore, this goofy ’80s horror feels like a throwback to an earlier age. A bunch of teens are drawn into a waxworks’ vignettes – portals to encounters with classic menaces like a mummy, aristo vampires and de Sade.

The format is pure Amicus anthology; Hammer horror is homaged; the sight of familiar thesps like Avengers star Patrick Macnee delights. But it doesn’t have much to offer beyond fanboy shivers of recognition.

Extras Commentary; Making Ofs; gallery; trailer. Ian Berriman