Anthony Hickox

writer, director
Feature Film

Waxwork I

Waxwork

  • written and directed by Anthony Hickox
  • (at movie theaters, USA, 17 June 1988)

This first of the two Waxwork horror films has secondary worlds, but no time travel. Move along to Waxwork II. —Michael Main
I hear you were having drinks with the butler the other night. Now, you know that sort of thing leads to anarchy.
A butler invites you through a door to see eleven ghoulish heads.
  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • No Time Phenomena
Feature Film

Waxwork II

Waxwork II: Lost in Time

  • written and directed by Anthony Hickox
  • (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, March 1992)

After the flaming climax at the end of Waxwork (which had no time travel that I could see), Mark and Sarah (a different actress) crawl home only to be followed by a disembodied hand that (before being garbage-disposaled into tiny pieces) hacks Sarah’s nearly evil stepfather to death. Nobody at Sarah’s subsequent trial for murder believes that story, so after listening to a movie of dead Patrick Macnee, they escape into a series of bad horror movie remakes from Frankenstein to Aliens.

Of course, all these movies are set in different times, but is there any actual time travel? The final scene gives a definitive answer, when Sarah meets James Westborn, after the verdict of her trial. —Michael Main
We burned that place to the ground. Nothing could have got out.
A headshot of a yellow-eyed, red man staring fixedly through a transparent
                stopwatch.
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel