• Wax Mask (Italian: M.D.C. - Maschera di cera) is a 1997 gothic horror film. The film is set in Rome where a Wax Museum has opened up, whose main attraction...
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    A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the...
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  • bathroom, but is kidnapped by Bo's twin brother, Vincent, who wears a wax mask to cover his facial disfigurement from where they were once conjoined....
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    wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance. Often these are effigies, usually of a notable individual, but there are also death masks and...
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    and repeated in 1925. However, the face and hands were covered with a wax mask. The body of Saint Zita, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church....
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    him, breaking off a wax mask concealing his disfigured face that identifies him as the murderer, and faints in shock. Jarrod heats wax to make her into his...
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    was made up of other materials such as wax, sand and earth. They were fitted with masks most commonly made of wax but sometimes silver. The mummies were...
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    March of that year. The film was later directed by Sergio Stivaletti as Wax Mask, with Argento and Fulci both receiving co-screenwriting credits. Argento...
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    collaborate on a horror film called Wax Mask, a loose remake of the 1953 Vincent Price horror classic House of Wax. Argento claimed he had heard about...
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    the Wax Museum, the 1953 film House of Wax (both of which were based on a story by Charles S. Belden) or, particularly, the 1997 Italian film Wax Mask (for...
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    Castellitto and Julie Taymor. In 1997, Stivaletti debuted as director with Wax Mask, replacing original director Lucio Fulci who had died during the pre-production...
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    and covering them in wax, while all he did for Igor was locate Worth. Charlotte strikes Igor's face and breaks through a wax mask to his scarred true visage...
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    Bonaparte, it was customary to cast a death mask of a great leader who had recently died. A mixture of wax or plaster was placed over Napoleon's face and...
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    in attendance. Before he was entombed, Vianney's body was fitted with a wax mask. On 3 October 1874 Pope Pius IX proclaimed him "venerable"; on 8 January...
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    made death masks of the executed royals. Madame Tussauds, historically associated with London, is the most famous name associated with wax museums, although...
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    Facial (section Facial mask)
    removing dead surface skin cells. Non-setting facial masks include warm oil and paraffin wax masks. These different forms are made to suit different skin...
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    belts. In the morning, they wear a wax mask of a particular design. After reaching the town hall, they remove these masks for the afternoon. During the afternoon...
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    her own creativity to the mix, Tussaud brought with her all her death masks, wax faces and busts. Complaining that Philidor failed to promote her, Tussaud...
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    Most traditional masks are made of wood, while some are made from leather, wax, cardboard, papier-mâché or other materials. Masks commonly depict Europeans...
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    Lelouch 1995 Les Misérables the master of ceremonies Claude Lelouch 1997 Wax Mask Boris Volkoff Sergio Stivaletti 1999 Venus Beauty Institute the pilot Tonie...
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    were sent to Rome. A precise imprint of the face was molded to make a wax mask based on the imprints and on some genuine photos to be placed on her body...
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    could demonstrate his or her lineage through imagines – death masks of ancestors. These were wax casts kept in a lararium (the family shrine). Rites of passage...
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  • body cavity with rags and padding to provide fullness, sometimes adding wax masks decorated with nail polish over the faces before dressing them in brightly...
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    "Ujangong" mask dance Phonograph cylinder recorded in German New Guinea on August 23, 1904, by German anthropologist Rudolf Pöch The earliest soft wax cylinders...
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    Festa, 1996) starring David Warbeck, Donald Pleasence and Linnea Quigley Wax Mask (Sergio Stivaletti, 1997; Italian: M.D.C. – Maschera di cera) Milonga (Emidio...
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    because they evolved from wax death masks. These death masks were taken from bodies and kept in a home altar. Besides wax, masks were made from bronze, marble...
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    done by an anonymous artist can be found at the Galerie Tourbillon, and a wax mask of her by Georges Despret is preserved at the Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum...
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  • Reynolds Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand New Zealand Wax Mask Sergio Stivaletti Romina Mondello, Robert Hossein Italy Wishmaster Robert...
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  • writers and actors strikes. In 2022, Ralph Macchio published the memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (Dutton), in which he reflects upon the making...
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    The Gilles of Binche, in costume, wearing wax masks...
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