I recently came across a 1988 horror movie named Waxwork, which seems to be an obvious inspiration for this game. In the movie, David Warner plays the owner of a wax museum which contains eighteen displays each about one of the eighteen most evil people who ever lived. Two of these include Jack the Ripper, and an Egyptian tomb with a living dead mummy. The wax displays claim victims by transporting people into their own worlds and killing them. Once all eighteen have claimed a victim, they shall come to life and bring about the end of the world.

Sounds familiar, does it not?