It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

When his car has a flat tire, Woody (Keith McDermott) seeks a gas station in an empty road. He finds a deserted place and is attacked by mannequins in a room and dies. Meanwhile his girlfriend Eileen (Robin Sherwood) waits for him in the car. However their friends Jerry (Jon Van Ness), Molly (Jocelyn Jones) and Becky (Tanya Roberts) arrive and they decide to look for him. They find a paradisiacal waterfall but their car breaks down. While Jerry tries to fix the car, the girls bath in a lake. Out of the blue, an old man arrives and he introduces himself as Mr. Slausen (Chuck Connors), who owns the place. He brings Molly, Becky and Eileen to his house and tells that he would help Jerry. They find a waxwork museum with armed cowboys. Eileen decides to leave the house to find a telephone, but she is attacked and strangled by a masked stranger. Who might be the killer and how will he girls flee from the spot?"Tourist Trap" is an unoriginal slasher with a mad serial-killer that seems to be a magician. The plot is totally predictable and how the insane killer controls the mannequins is not explained. In addition, the boring music score by the Italian musician Pino Donaggio is annoying. My vote is six.Title (Beail): "Armadilha para Turistas" ("Tourist Trap")

I like this one! It really has that authentic 70s style. From the costume design to the color scheme. Its feels like a Halloween haunted house, 5 dollars at the door. Only this Halloween house might be the last you'll ever visit, and it ain't Halloween! The girls are 70s sexy! I have a crush on all of them. May they rest in peace. To be stranded in the middle of nowhere gas station/bar/mechanical theme park and, wouldn't you know it, the phone doesn't work! Come to find out this man has a thing for lifelike manikins! These aren't your average herberger's display models! I give this movie 5 bags of popcorn in mustard and brown striped bags! For an authentic experience watch this film in an abandoned gas station!

A group of young people breakdown in the middle of nowhere and set out in search of help. They find an old roadside museum filled with mannequins, run by an old guy named Mr. Slausen (Chuck Connors). Very quickly, the group realizes all is not right when, one-by-one, the friends go missing.I'm shocked to see all of the glowing, 10/10 reviews for Tourist Trap. I've probably seen the movie three or four times over the years and it's never really done much for me. It's got too many faults for me to rate it average or above. First, the movie is horribly predictable and the final twist is easy to guess about 20 minutes in. There are no surprises. For the most part, the acting is abysmal. Chuck Connors is the only real "actor" in the cast. The group of friends aren't the brightest bulbs - and that's by horror movie standards. Could they have made it any easier for the killer? They each take a turn wandering around aimlessly and alone in the dark. It's hard to feel anything for people this stupid. Finally, unlike most reviews I've read, I've never found Tourist Trap all that atmospheric. Yes, there are some creepy moments, but overall, the movie's never worked on that level for me.I always try to include the good side of any movie I watch, so here it is for Tourist Trap. Chuck Connor is good. He is the creepy part I was referring to earlier. Other than a few instances, Pino Donaggio's score is quite good. Much of the film's music belongs in a better movie than Tourist Trap. Finally, one of the movie's real highlights is Tanya Roberts' tube top. It's the center of attention in most scenes.

It's actually a pretty good little horror film that does get under your skin. Certainly it gets a lot of mileage out of its use of mannequins. These things have rarely been portrayed in a more off-putting, memorable manner. While this does owe an obvious influence to other horror films of the decade, such as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Carrie", and "Halloween", it's still effective on its own merits. The creation of backwoods atmosphere is impressive, and at the centre of things is a marvelously demented performance by good ol' Chuck Connors as our merry antagonist.Chuck plays Mr. Slausen, proprietor of an out of the way museum who encounters some young adults who have had car trouble. Since the girls have a tendency to be stupid and go wandering off on their own, they're fair game. Unfortunately, Slausen has a younger brother, Davey, who's prowling around the premises, and soon these city slickers will find out just how much trouble they're in.Some nifty, and sinister, touches and twists make a difference in this directing credit for David Schmoeller, who also co-wrote the screenplay with J. Larry Carroll. Another heavy asset is the sometimes comical but often genuinely spooky music score by the always reliable Pino Donaggio. Other talents behind the camera include cinematographer Nicholas Josef von Sternberg, art director Robert A. Burns, and editor Ted Nicolaou; the latter two, of course, had actually worked on "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".The victims may be daft but the actors at least do a decent job. Jocelyn Jones ("The Great Texas Dynamite Chase"), daughter of the great character actor Henry Jones, is appealing as Molly, while Robin Sherwood ("Death Wish II") and Tanya Roberts ('Charlie's Angels') offer some sass as Eileen and Becky. But Chuck is the glue that holds all of this together; he's a wonderful psycho and is even touching at times.Worth it just for a particular death scene, which is really quite disturbing.Future "Tremors" and "City Slickers" director Ron Underwood was the first assistant director here.Seven out of 10.