Waxworks, released in Germany as Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni, in which a young poet hired to write stories about the figures in a wax museum imagines three tales inspired by them: the caliph Harun al-Rashid, the tsar Ivan the Terrible, and Jack the Ripper. Its stylized, distorted sets carried forward the visual traditions established by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the film is regarded as an influential early example of the anthology horror format, structured as separate self-contained stories within a single frame narrative.
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Waxworks, released in Germany as Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni, in which a young poet hired to write stories about the figures in a wax museum imagines three tales inspired by them: the caliph Harun al-Rashid, the tsar Ivan the Terrible, and Jack the Ripper.
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Waxworks (German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni.
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Waxworks (German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni.
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Waxworks (German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni.
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