Crossword clues for waxworks
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxworks \Wax"works`\, n. pl. An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as, Madame Toussaud's Waxworks.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An exhibition of waxwork figures; a wax museum. 2 (plural of waxwork English)Category:English plurals
Wikipedia
Waxworks is a 1924 German silent fantasy- horror film directed by Paul Leni. The film is about a writer who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad ( Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible ( Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper ( Werner Krauss) in order to boost business.
Although Waxworks is often credited as a horror film, it is an anthology film that goes through several genres including a fantasy adventure, a historical film, and a horror film through its various episodes. This film would be director Paul Leni's last film made in Germany before he went on to make The Cat and the Canary (1927) in the United States.
Waxworks is a first-person, dungeon crawl-style role-playing video game (RPG) created by Horror Soft. The game was released in . It was originally an Amiga game, but was also released for DOS. This was the last game made by Horror Soft before they became Adventure Soft, the company that made the Simon the Sorcerer series.
Waxworks is a text adventure game by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden. It was originally published by Digital Fantasia in 1983 for the Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. It was the 11th game in the Mysterious Adventures series.
The story is about a waxworks in which the protagonist is trapped. Escaping involves finding statues of famous people (like Hillary and Tenzing).
Whilst some of the statues are exceptionally easy to identify, others are not so simple without acquiring the necessary clues earlier in the game. For example, identifying the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George is exceptionally problematic without first finding a clue to his whereabouts. It was also noted that, owing to limited graphics capacity, several of the statues bear a striking resemblance to actor David Niven.
Usage examples of "waxworks".
And the legend of Prester John, blowing like a spring breeze into that stagnating waxworks, was as important as the crusades in stirring the minds of men and making them dream of distant horizons.
When he was alone with the waxworks Chamcha was able to fix his thoughts once again on the face that had finally coalesced in his mind's eye, radiant, the light streaming out around him from a point just behind his head, Mister Perfecto, portrayer of gods, who always landed on his feet, was always forgiven his sins, loved, praised, adored .
The creature bared its teeth and let out a long, foul breath, and the waxworks dissolved into puddles and empty clothes, all of them, every one.