A post-Halloween PG supernatural slasher that certainly shouldn't have worked in the first place based on its rating alone but somehow ultimately does, Tourist Trap is an obscure gem of a film that while sluggish and a tad bit campy at times, features a rich amount of uncanniness that not many horrors can replicate especially in this day and age.

Unsettling, lifelike mannequins and a cryptic, mannequin-obsessed telekinetic individual give Tourist Trap its comprehensive unnerving atmosphere that relatively works to a considerable extent, even with the film lacking the gore that the subgenre is traditionally known for. A truly minor, but still conclusively haunting, chilling, and nightmarish slice of late '70s slasher fare all in all.

I love who wholesome Chuck Conors goes ALL IN for this movie!!!!

"Used to scare the hell out of kids and the Yankee tourists" -local yokel,

It is a commonly known fact that every time a major highway is built, that tourist attractions on minor highways become havens for serial killers. Avoiding that needs to be part of an infrastructure bill.

In this borderline exploitation film, three attractive women and a few guys end up at a place off that main highway and stumbles upon a creepy weird mannequin house with a latex masked killer. The direction is manic, the characters are over the top, the kills are creepy...I like it. Watch if you want to see mannequins singing creepy songs, decapitated screaming heads, and creepy masks.

Always a good call to put your killer in jeans. It’s night for the heroes but for the killer it’s 2pm on a Sunday and he’s running to Home Depot to pick up some mulch for the yard.

So underwhelmed on re-watch that I don't even know what to say about Tourist Trap other than "I used to like this a lot more than I do now," which is about as boring as the movie--I'm sorry!

VHS HELL #57

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“You’re so pretty.”

Nightmarish mix of creepy masked torturer and even creepier mannequins. I’ve always loved this Full Moon feature - it’s right up there with Dolls and Puppet Master for me, and in the same vein as well. There’s just something about moving humanlike inanimate objects that’s really unsettling. It feels, in part, like a distant cousin of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and that’s a great relative to know. There’s a great spooky atmosphere to this, and it’s smack-dab between the two greatest eras of horror [imo] (1974-1980 and 1981-1988), so it has an actual story, a good score, and some character development (again, just some). I really need to check out the Joe Bob Briggs marathon that has this in it, because y’all made it sound amazing and I feel like I’m missing out.

Every year, young people disappear.

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Besides the Pino Donaggio score and mannequins, everything about the filmmaking and production is incredibly adequate. There’s no sense of terror and the padding is horrendous.

I don’t know... I just thought this was cult classic, I’ve seen it on numerous Best horror lists and I just don’t see that at all, besides a great ending admittedly. 

I enjoyed a slasher shot in an apartment more than this, let me put it that way.

This one is really fun. 

The mannequins are creepy as hell and the editing achieves the illusion that makes the atmosphere work. 

It’s simple and silly in the way a lot of horror films of this ilk are but that isn’t a problem if you like that sort of thing. 

I will definitely return to this.

it's a hodgepodge of ideas that at times work on their own yet as a whole don't gel particularly well. retreads a lot of the same motifs to the point where it gets repetitive. I don't believe the pg rating was a help as it felt like I was watching a toothless sunday afternoon horror special for kids. certainly not a bad movie but it sure is underwhelming. also the telekinesis was lame as hell

Better than I was expecting it to be but still not great. The movie did have a creepy atmosphere throughout and it did feel quite eerie. However the plot wasn't very original. It was pretty much just a typical 80s slasher. It was a meh movie overall. The characters aren't all that memorable and youre not really invested in any of them. I would recommend tourist trap if youre a fan of slasher but I wouldn't say go rush out and see it now.

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Oof.

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Someone saw that episode of The Twilight Zone and said, "Okay but what if there was a psychopath?"

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beckys boobs were abt to FLYY out so many times but i am not complaining. F in the chat

fuck this movie is bad