20 Cringey and Creepy Photos of Wax Statues and Figurines
Daniel Bonfiglio
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10/13/2024
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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.
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“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.” -
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Vincent Price in House of Wax premiered April 10, 1953. -
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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. -
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A technician works on broken hands from the waxworks of Madame Tussauds, 1950s. -
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An employee of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum working on a waxwork of the model Twiggy, London, 1967. -
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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. -
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The remains of Elena de Hoyos, (1910 - 1931), encased in wax and plaster by her obsessed physician Carl Tanzler, circa 1940. -
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Anton LaVey poses with a wax statue of Rosemary's Baby, 1967. -
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Vincent Price visiting the Movieland Wax Museum, 1967. -
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Alma Reville in the kitchen with a wax figure of husband Alfred Hitchcock’s head in the fridge, 1974. -
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Madame Tussauds, London, unveils the The Beatles rendered in wax; they are the first pop stars to be so honored. 1964. -
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Department store wax mannequins melting during a heatwave in 1929. -
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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. -
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Retired heads of state stand neck and neck with other famous and infamous figures at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum storage. October 1979. -
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“My husband when he was actually 19 at Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, 1989.” -
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The cast of "Star Trek" meeting their wax museum-doppelgängers in the 1970s. -
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John Travolta and Nicolas Cage's wax figures at Potter’s Wax Museum. Augustine, Florida, 2010. -
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Star Wars scene in a Spanish wax museum. -
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The National Presidential Wax Museum. -
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A wax statue in Madame Tussaud’s museum in London resembling a German SS soldier in a gas mask.
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“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.”
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