![]() Bruce Campbell (rear with entrails exposed) and Zach Galligan (front) in the pastiche of The Haunting None of the parodies come with any of the discernible frisson or style that made them classics in the first place. With Waxwork II, Anthony Hickox ups the number of homages and gives a slightly more substantial motivating reason behind everything, but offers little else. Both films have been construed as a pastiche of various genre films. Waxwork II: Lost in Time is decidedly inferior to Waxwork (1988), the passably mediocre original that spawned it. ![]() (See below for Anthony Hickox’s other films). Since the 1990s, Hickox has moved away from horror and concentrates now on action films and thrillers, while he appears to have disappeared as a directorial force from around the end of the 2000s. Hickox’s best film, in terms of consistent theme, has probably been Hellraiser III, but that film’s main distinction was the reduction of Clive Barker’s menagerie of Sadian demons to one-liner-dropping Freddy Krueger castoffs. The nearest Hickox has demonstrated to a discernible style so far is a considerable enthusiasm, albeit a tongue-in-cheek one, for the letting of gore. So far all he seems to have done is sequelize other people’s films – Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) and Warlock : The Armageddon (1993) or rehash themes from the past – Waxwork (1988), the vampire Western Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) and the werewolf movie Full Eclipse (1993). Anthony Hickox is a director who has frequently dabbled within the fantastic genre but has yet to establish himself as a director capable of making original films.
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