Review #273: Tourist Trap (1979)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #27 - Tourist Trap (1979) Tourist Trap is a film about a group of friends driving down an old mountain road, when car trouble gets them stranded outside of a closed roadside wax museum. The owner, Slauson, offers to help them fix their car, and ultimately the friends get split up and start getting killed- possibly by sentient mannequins, possibly by Slauson's deranged brother (with or without the aid of sentient mannequins). This is a WILD movie. I first saw it about fifteen years ago, with a group of friends (one of whom described this film as "the worst use of telekinesis ever") and I do think it works best as a group activity. There's some genuinely creepy and unexpected moments, but a lot of the runtime is kind of dull, and the bizarre nature of the villain's methods do nearly all of the heavy lifting to keep this movie interesting- the characters aren't very memorab...