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20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

When done well, wax museums are absolutely incredible. When done poorly, they're the stuff of nightmares.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 7 months ago in Wtf

When done well, wax museums are absolutely incredible. Standing next to your favorite celebrity or historical figure, and feeling like they're completely life-like, has been the draw of Madame Tussauds' museums for decades. 


But when wax figures go wrong, they become instant nightmare fuel: and it's very easy for them to go wrong. 


Here are 21 creepy photos of waxed figures throughout history.

  • 1

    “My dad and grandparents in 1971 at a wax museum posing with Frankenstein's monster. My grandmother had never been to America and sent this photo to her family back home to Korea and they thought the monster was a relative.”

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 2

    Vincent Price in House of Wax premiered April 10, 1953.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 3

    Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher who founded utilitarianism and died in 1832, requested that his body be preserved. His head didn't mummify very well, so they made a wax copy.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 4

    A technician works on broken hands from the waxworks of Madame Tussauds, 1950s.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 5

    An employee of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum working on a waxwork of the model Twiggy, London, 1967.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 6

    Earl Dorfman, managing director of the National Historical Wax Museum, presenting a model of astronaut Alan Shepard’s head to Philip Hopkins, the director of the National Air Museum, Washington DC, September 15, 1961.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 7

    The remains of Elena de Hoyos, (1910 - 1931), encased in wax and plaster by her obsessed physician Carl Tanzler, circa 1940.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 8

    Anton LaVey poses with a wax statue of Rosemary's Baby, 1967.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 9

    Vincent Price visiting the Movieland Wax Museum, 1967.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 10

    Alma Reville in the kitchen with a wax figure of husband Alfred Hitchcock’s head in the fridge, 1974.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 11

    Madame Tussauds, London, unveils the The Beatles rendered in wax; they are the first pop stars to be so honored. 1964.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 12

    Department store wax mannequins melting during a heatwave in 1929.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 13

    Workers carrying the seated wax figure of Neville Chamberlain past the standing wax models of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Benito Mussolini at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1935.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 14

    Retired heads of state stand neck and neck with other famous and infamous figures at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum storage. October 1979.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 15

    “My husband when he was actually 19 at Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, 1989.”

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 16

    The cast of "Star Trek" meeting their wax museum-doppelgängers in the 1970s.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 17

    John Travolta and Nicolas Cage's wax figures at Potter’s Wax Museum. Augustine, Florida, 2010.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 18

    Star Wars scene in a Spanish wax museum.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 19

    The National Presidential Wax Museum.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

  • 20

    A wax statue in Madame Tussaud’s museum in London resembling a German SS soldier in a gas mask.

    20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines

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