House of Wax is a 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre DeToth. A remake of Warner Bros.' Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933, the film stars Vincent Price as a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. It premiered in New York on April 10, 1953, and had a general release on April 25.
While House of Wax is not based on the Frankenstein story, the movie's character list oddly includes Igor, a stock character from Frankenstein's mythos. Played by Charles Buchinsky, Igor is deaf rather than deformed, but is essentially the same archetypical lab assistant.