Line #19 Film/TouristTrap


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} Every year young people disappear.]]]]
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4	'''''Tourist Trap''''' is a 1979 American SlasherMovie starring Creator/ChuckConnors and Creator/TanyaRoberts. It concerns a group of young adults who are stalked and killed by a mannequin-controlling telekinetic.
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6	It was distributed on VHS by Creator/{{Paramount}}. In 2012, it was given the Podcast/RiffTrax treatment.
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8	Not to be confused with [[WebOriginal/TouristTrap the Original Character Tournament]].
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
11	* AlliterativeTitle
12	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Slausen]] is the killer.
13	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Mr. Slausen's brother, whom we have been lead to believe is the killer for most of the film, was actually murdered by Slausen, the true killer.]]
14	* DoubleMeaningTitle: Referencing the film's kitschy tourist attraction setting and the fact that the tourists are trapped with the killer.
15	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: While the killer is taken down, the FinalGirl is driven completely insane by the film's events, and drives away with the mannequins of her dead friends.]]
16	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: While he spends the first two-thirds of the film blaming the killings on his brother, seemingly kindly old man Mr. Slausen is the true killer.]]
17	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Molly is the last character standing.]]
18	* FrightDeathtrap: The killer kills one victim by covering her face in mannequin plaster, which makes her unable to breathe as it dries, and waits for her heart to burst from fear.
19	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Molly]] wouldn't have had access to the ax she uses [[spoiler:to kill Mr. Slausen]] if he didn't sadistically set up an elaborate HopeSpot.
20	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Jerry shows up to rescue Molly after Slausen had trapped her, but Slausen re-appears and begins taking Jerry's limbs apart, revealing [[TomatoInTheMirror Jerry had been replaced with a mannequin]] earlier in the movie.]]
21	* HumanResources: The killer makes his mannequins by covering his victims' bodies in plaster.
22	* InventedIndividual: [[spoiler:Slausen jokes that UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett lives in the neighboring house. With TheReveal that Slausen is the killer, it is implied that "Davy" is actually a mannequin.]]
23	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When Slausen leaves Molly outside while he looks for the killer, the villain confronts her and she shoots him with a shotgun he left her, which turns out to be loaded with blanks. [[spoiler: Immediately after, Slausen reveals that he was the killer all along.]]
24	* MalevolentMaskedMen: The killer wears a CreepyDoll mask.
25	* MarketBasedTitle: Released theatrically in Britain (as a DoubleFeature with ''{{Film/Phantasm}}'') in 1982 as ''Nightmare Of Terror''.
26	* MindOverMatter: The killer has telekinesis as his weapon.
27	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: The killer acts like the mannequins he makes from his victims are a very large family, giving them voices via telepathy.
28	* MurderousMannequin: The killer likes to torment his victims via his mannequins before killing them.
29	* MyCarHatesMe: Our victim pool are trapped in a ClosedCircle by their car breaking down. It's heavily implied that this was telekinetically caused by the killer.
30	* ThePlace: The protagonists call Slausen's Lost Oasis a tourist trap.
31	* RedHerring: Early on, Slausen talks about [[spoiler:his brother]], who apparently had a knack for creating mannequins and working with mechanical objects. Because the death of Woody involved moving mannequins and flying objects, the audience assumes that [[spoiler:the brother]] is responsible and is residing at a nearby house.
32	* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After taking down the killer, FinalGirl Molly snaps from seeing all her friends killed and is last seen driving down the highway with mannequins of all of them, laughing wildly.]]
33	* SexSlave: [[spoiler:The killer decides to make the FinalGirl into one of these and keep her forever.]]
34	* SkinnyDipping: The only {{Fanservice}} in the film is one scene where the entire female cast swims naked in a woodland lake.
35	* SlashersPreferBlondes: Played straight with the first onscreen death being a blond guy, but subverted with the blonde Molly who survives while her two brunette friends do not.
36	* TrashyTouristTrap: PlayedForHorror, as the destination is owned by a serial killing psychic.
37	* VillainOpeningScene: The killer tormenting a guy who wanted to use his phone.

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