Waxwork II: Lost in Time

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Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Directed by	Anthony Hickox
Written by	Anthony Hickox
Starring	Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp
Release date(s)	June 16, 1992
Running time	104 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Waxwork
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Waxwork II: Lost in Time is a 1992 horror/comedy film directed and written by Anthony Hickox.

[edit] Plot summary

Directly continuing from the previous film, Mark and Sarah, the survivors from Waxwork unbeknownst to them, are still being pursued by a murderous disembodied hand as they leave the wreckage. The two students part ways, with the waxwork zombie-hand following Sarah to her apartment room.

Inside a very run-down room, Sarah is unpleasantly greeted by her widower/stepfather, who had warned her about going out with her friends and scolds her for ruining her dress, but quickly apologizes.

Shortly after the hand scuttles into the room killing Sarah's father with a hammer, and attempting to kill her. Sarah, however, manages to shove the hand down a waste disposal. covering the room in blood and forcing a scream of "I thought you said it was over!" from Sarah.

The next day, Sarah is framed for the murder of her father, and brought to court where the destruction of the waxwork is brought up. Of course, no one believes the true story, but fortunately Mark disrupts her trial, causing temporary dismissal of both protagonists.

Hoping to gather evidence, the two again go to Sir Wilred's (their ally from the last film) home. Inside, they find a filmreel of Sir Wilfred speaking of he and Mark's grandfather's adventures. Near the end of his talk he tells Mark and Sarah of the artifacts they collected together. After finding a secret switch in Sir Wilfred's chessboard a door opens in the wall to a room full of objects.

Mark and Sarah finally come across a small compass-like device, and upon reading the directions in a piece of parchment contained with the device they read that it was used in history by light and dark angels to travel through time.

[edit] Trivia

• A small tidbit, Mark, never ends up turning in his ridiculously long report from the prequel
• This film's title is apparently put in so as not to confuse fans, as there is little wax involved (save for the flashback, along with the hand in the beginning), and although the sequel follows the same basic formula. (several anthology-like segments, this time linked not through an enchanted Waxwork, but through time itself.)
• Both waxwork films contain end credit music which may be considered strange, the first being accompanied by It's my Party, and the second by a campy rap song.
• Another connection between both films, the climax consists of a melee, this time not with living statues, but with time periods themselves.
• Bruce Campbell, a cameo in Waxwork, makes a return in this film in a slightly larger part.
• Drew Barrymmore also made an cameo in this movie during the Nosferatu sequence.

[edit] External links

• Waxwork II: Lost in Time at the Internet Movie Database