Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap
PG | 14 March 1979 (USA)
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After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the mysterious Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of supernatural mannequins

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Flyerplesys

Perfectly adorable

Cleveronix

A different way of telling a story

Ogosmith

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Danny Blankenship

"Tourist Trap" from 1979 is one film that to me is a B list horror gem the plot is a little silly and the scenes seem far fetched yet, still for it's day it provided fears and fright for an audience. The plot revolves around a wax museum and a group of teenage kids who wander away(which was typical of late 70' and early 80's horror pictures).Set in the California desert area a group of teenage kids break down and after getting rid of car trouble they find and wonder their way to a creepy and deserted wax house called Slausen's Lost Oasis and each one by one are lured into this trap of death and a wax bath! The owner Slausen(Chuck Conners) runs an actual chamber of horrors.The picture becomes gross and crazy with flying and twisting mannequins who murder in this sordid show of fear and fright. Really this is a picture of crazy madness a B list movie that proves you never know what you will encounter and find and mostly never trust anyone!

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Anonymous Andy (Minus_The_Beer)

"Every year young people disappear ..."So goes the tagline to "Tourist Trap" and so goes the concept of countless other slasher movies from the 1970s and beyond. What sets this late '70s oddity aside from competition, however, is the pure nightmare fuel of mannequins coming to life via telekinesis. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. This instantly memorable slice of frightful nostalgia comes via producer Irwin Yablans, who previously helped bring John Carpenter's "Halloween" to the public consciousness. "Tourist Trap," unlike the wave of imitators that would arrive in the wake of Carpenter's classic, takes a page instead from Tobe Hooper's seminal "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and veers away from typical stalk & slash fare. Like "Chain Saw," It is a gritty, ugly and ultimately an undeniably humorous offering of macabre madness.Stranded by the side of the road (aren't they always), a group of young folk are taken in by an odd yet seemingly well-meaning owner of a local, deserted tourist attraction, played to perfection by Chuck Conners. Soon it becomes clear why the attraction to this spot has all but dried up: turns out someone next door is killing wayward souls and fashioning them into a small army of killer mannequins! Faster than plaster drying on a face, this horrifying discovery takes these unlucky ladies and lads on a trip they won't soon forget -- assuming they can live through it.Directed by "Puppet Master" director David Schmoeller and co- produced by Charles Band (the guy who founded Full Moon pictures, and has been throwing countless "Puppet Master" sequels and knock- offs at us for decades now), "Tourist Trap" has an almost instantly lived-in vibe about it. From the strains of Pino Donaggio's bizarre yet familiar score to the horrific yet low-budget effects, this is definitely a Full Moon production of the highest order. Chuck Conners is brilliant as the unassuming, seemingly friendly elder, while the kids -- lead by future Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts -- are surprisingly organic and sympathetic, in spite of the limited amount of set up they are given. A film chock full of visuals you won't soon forget (especially that infectiously grin-inducing final frame), "Tourist Trap" is bound to leave an impression on anyone from any walk of life who finds themselves attracted to it. And to cap it all off, it's rated a measly PG!

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TheBlueHairedLawyer

Tourist Trap is a lot like American Gothic (1988) and The Funhouse (1981). It's one of those horror movies you come across when browsing youtube and I really liked it; it's one of those cheesy 80's horror films with some good acting, funny props, a weird storyline and a creepy killer in a secluded place. Tourist Trap adds in elements of sci-fi as well though... the killer has telekinetic powers and his only friends appear to be his countless dolls and mannequins.Tourist Trap is a great movie to check out if you're a horror fan. The soundtrack is kinda funny, kinda creepy, all at once. The acting was decent despite its low budget and the effects were cheesy and outdated but not too bad.

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Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki

A few good jump scares in the first scene, as guy is locked in room and things start flying through the windows, and at him, while mannequin cackles, until a metal post pierces his lower back, killing him- followed by complete silence, as we survey the damage to the room, the scene of the crime. Good opening promises a lot, I hope the rest of the film can hold up. A group of three girls and one guy stumble upon a waterfall after their jeep breaks down. They don't' seem alarmed by the strange local hick (imagine George Lazenby doing a bad Clint Eastwood impersonation) trying to drive them away with a shotgun - he takes them to Slausen's Museum, closed to the public. He even decorated it himself. They're warned by this hick to stay away from the odd, old house in the distance, and for good reason. One girl goes to have a look anyway: life-like mannequins seem to be coming to life to attack her inside. In a good unmasking scene, (Phantom of the Opera reference? vaguely Psycho reference) it is revealed that the old hick thinks he is his own brother, and is killing people to turn them into wax figures, mannequins, which he has some type of power and control over. Jerry jumping out the window was a Texas Chain Saw Massacre reference. Stupid twist of Tanya getting free but then allowing villain to take her back to the house is a major turning point for the film, but not for the better. The first half is quite good, with many references to earlier horrors without being overly derivative, but this weird combo of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, House Of Wax, and Psycho gets silly during Tanya Roberts' attack, and never fully recovers its edge it had in the first half. A basic, uncomplicated premise helps, the plot is not over complicated; weird camera angels and the bizarre mannequins themselves all make this highly effective and memorable, but the climax couldn't be any more stupid. A better ending to the film could have made it a classic.

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