There's a great deal of twinning present in 2005's House of Wax. The film presents us with two sets of twins: Bo and Vincent, the film's antagonists, and Carly and Nick, the two protagonists. Nick sets up a classic twin dichotomy by quipping that he's the "evil twin", while the film's opening sequence shows us two young children (Bo and Vincent) who seemingly embody a similar concept: one is quiet and well-mannered and the other is rambunctious and uncontrollable. What becomes clear, however, is that Nick is not so bad and neither of the antagonists is exactly "good"; certainly Carly's last-ditch attempt to convince the "good twin" Vincent not to kill her amounts to nothing. The real twin pair is the protagonists and the antagonists (who we learn were born conjoined, in other words, as one).
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There's a great deal of twinning present in 2005's House of Wax. The film presents us with two sets of twins: Bo and Vincent, the film's antagonists, and Carly and Nick, the two protagonists. Nick sets up a classic twin dichotomy by quipping that he's the "evil twin", while the film's opening sequence shows us two young children (Bo and Vincent) who seemingly embody a similar concept: one is quiet and well-mannered and the other is rambunctious and uncontrollable. What becomes clear, however, is that Nick is not so bad and neither of the antagonists is exactly "good"; certainly Carly's last-ditch attempt to convince the "good twin" Vincent not to kill her amounts to nothing. The real twin pair is the protagonists and the antagonists (who we learn were born conjoined, in other words, as one).