'The Wax Mask' (1997) – Sergio Stivaletti.

A terrified young Parisian girl Sonia (Romina Mondello) witnesses the gruesome slaughter of her parents by a shadow-slaked, steel handed horror! later, in adulthood, she fatefully finds work with eerily eccentric wax sculptor Boris Volkoff (Robert Hossein), discovering that his macabre mannequins prove to be disturbingly lifelike!! While the prosaic dubbing precludes any hope of acting nuance, Stivaletti's full-blooded, splendidly grisly Gothic shocker remains a stylish, gore-glutted update of terror classic Mystery of The Wax Museum. The grossly disfigured Volkoff is a fascinatingly evil fiend, and his grim subterranean laboratory is sinisterly replete with a deliciously diabolical array of monstrous-looking machinery! Co-written by horror maestro Lucio Fulci, co-produced by Dario Argento, a frequently disparaged work, I feel that Stivaletti's gorgeously Gothic chunkblower is overdue some love, dude!