A bunch of college students are stranded in a small town where suffering for art takes on a whole new meaning in this tale of terror. Carly Elisha Cuthbert and her boyfriend Wade Jared Padalecki have hit the road with a handful of their friends to attend a championship college football game; tagging along with them are Carly s bratty friend Paige Paris Hilton Carly s trouble-making twin brother Nick Chad Michael Murray and Blake Robert Richard Paige s latest boy toy. While camping out for the night the gang makes the mistake of getting on the wrong side of a mysterious local redneck and the next morning they discover that Wade s car no longer works. As the others continue on to the big game Carly and Wade make their way into the closest town Ambrose and discover it s all but deserted except for a local tourist attraction the House of Wax. However it isn t long before they find out why the wax sculptures at the museum look so freakishly real and discover a pair of murderous brothers are keen on making them part of the next exhibit. House of Wax is an in-name-only remake of the well-remembered 1953 3-D horror outing starring Vincent Price which was in turn based on the 1933 picture Mystery of the Wax Museum.