Building up for 'Wax'

Elisha Cuthbert talked to SciFi Wire about the physical demands of her role in the upcoming House of Wax.

"As much as it feels like a Scream, we've amped up the gore in this dramatically," Cuthbert said in an interview. "It's punchier than any other sort of teen horror. It's a lot of fun, but at the same time there's moments where you're like, 'Oh, my God!'"

In the film, Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door) plays a college student who confronts a pair of maniacal brothers when she and her friends are stranded outside of a seemingly abandoned town. Cuthbert said that she really got into the showdown scenes between her character and the film's villains in which she got to swing a baseball bat. "I felt like that was my moment," she said. "I felt like that was where my character goes, 'I am not a sissy. I am going to solve this situation,' and it's going to be enough to be satisfying for a resolve of a movie. All the people there can testify I was so sore the next day, because they were going to give me a fake bat, and I said that there's no way, because the feeling and the motion of having a real bat changes everything."

I remember a woman friend who loved to swing the bat at zombies and other creatures of the night whenever the opportunity presented.