

Tourist Trap
Every year young people disappear.
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.
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6.1/10
358 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- mask
- mannequin
- psychopath
- museum
- cult
- friends
- murder
- slasher
- demon
- macabre
- telekinetic
- wax
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PGLos Angeles14 Mar 1979
- TheatricalPG16 Mar 1979
FranceFR
- PremiereAvoriaz Fantastic Film Festival25 Jan 1979
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1821 Nov 1980
ItalyIT
- Physical25 Jul 2023
JapanJP
- Theatrical12 May 1979
PortugalPT
- Theatrical10 Dec 1982
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Tourist Trap was released on 14 March 1979.
Audience reviews
2- W7/10
Wuchak
7/29/2019
***Chuck Connors & creepy mannequins in the sticks of Southern Cal*** Three girls & two guys break down in the hills north of Los Angeles and are helped by the genial owner of a defunct desert museum with a penchant for spooky masks & mannequins (Chuck Connors). “Tourist Trap” (1979) combines elements of several previous horror flicks, like “Psycho” (1960), the desert museum opening of “Gargoyles” (1972), “Th…
- T5/10
tmdb76622195
10/26/2024
A (PG)-rated slasher film that has been on my radar for decades, "Tourist Trap" is both creepy and ridiculous. Mr. Slauson (Chuck Connors) is a kindly old gentleman living at his all-but-abandoned wax museum and tourist attraction, "Slauson's Lost Oasis." A new highway has rerouted all of his business away, save the occasional car that conveniently breaks down. After the opening murder of Woody (Keith McDermott) a…
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