Cameron Mitchell stars as Vince Rinaud, a former special effects man for Paragon Studios. After he is facially scarred by jealous studio owner Max (Barry Kroeger) over the actress they both love (Anne Helm), he is jilted by the film company and so retires to run a Hollywood wax museum. Vince attracts new acclaim for his eerie and realistic wax models; however, it isn't long before the enemies of Vince start to go missing, and effigies of the AWOL actors start appearing in Vince's wax museum.