Tourist Trap (1979)

Tourist Trap (1979)

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Horror Puppet
Puppet
Tourist Trap: Le Piège

Tagline(s):	Every Year Young People Disappear.
	Every Year Young Girls Disappear.
	The last roadside stop you'll ever make!

Nomination Year: 2025

SYNOPSIS:

At a weird closed-down roadside attraction, a group of young people are picked off one by one by a crazed killer with a fetish for mannequins.

Oh...and he has freaking telekinesis!

Has the dubious distinction of being the first (and one of the only) slasher pics to sport a "PG" rating...because it came out just before "PG-13" was invented.

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Crummiest Ending

Jerryquin and Crummiest WHAT?! Ending

Jerry comes to the rescue! He intends to take Molly out of here, safe... But... It turns out that he himself, Jerry, IS A MANNEQUIN! Yes, apparently Slausen's TK is so powerful and intricate, he can make his dolls indistiguishable from living people. He's just toying with Molly.

But Molly isn't toying with him when she axes him and kills him! (Don't ask me how she got the drop on him if he was so powerful.) Molly screams.

But then...we cut to the Jeep all the young folks drove in on, to see it occupied entirely by mannequins! What? How? Huh?? Nevermind, don't ask.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
David Schmoeller	Texan who helmed nearly 30 films, including Little Monsters, Crawlspace, Spanking Lessons, and of course Puppet Master (and a sequel or two). Not sure precisely how to pronounce his name, but in my head it's "Smeller."

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Chuck Connors	Mr. Slausen (sometimes "Slauson")	"The Rifleman" in the TV series of the same name, and in another, he was "Branded." Fascinatingly ugly big dude who played a lot of cowboys and tough guys.
Jon Van Ness	Jerry	Met Reford on the set of Brubaker and parlayed that into a career. Was John Olsen in The Natural; Trooper Hapscomb in The Hitcher; and, appropriately enough, Henry Dowd in Forgotten.
Jocelyn Jones	Molly	Linda Myers in The Other Side of the Mountain; Miki in The Enforcer; Ellie-Jo Turner in The Great Texas Dynamite Chase; Nan in Fun and Games;
Tanya Roberts	Becky	Famous actress; was a Bond Girl (A View to a Kill) AND a Charlie's Angel (Julie Rogers, "Charlie's Angels"). Was titular Sheena and Midge Pinciotti on "That '70s Show."
Robin Sherwood	Eileen	Betty in Blow Out; Carol Kersey in Death Wish II; Sheila in The Love Butcher.
Linnea Quigley	Mannequin	Very prolific Scream Queen who's been in hundreds of films. Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Demons, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Graduation Day, and many more.


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