DAY 29
A group of traveling friends break down near a roadside attraction featuring a museum of mannequins that come to life and kill thanks to the telekinetic abilities of the resident masked maniac.
Consensus says mannequins are scary as hell. They have no nipples, they wear clothes way better than us…Strangely, I own a six foot tall absolutely shredded mannequin looming in my living room that I sometimes practice kissing on. I’ve yet to see him move by himself, or maybe it’s just that my kissing isn’t good enough yet. Point is, enough there are many others freaked out by the idea of them suddenly moving on their own volition.
TOURIST TRAP (1979) is a classic masked slasher that explores the uncanny valley in which a collection of life size dolls are played like puppets to terrorize some out of luck road trippers. Piggy backing some ideas of its slasher predecessors while creating its own unique and bizarre sequences, the movie follows a few hotties who get a flat nearby a roadside attraction. The owner arrives to assist, inviting them back to the museum. One by one the friends are stalked by a costumed killer who uses their telekinetic power to frighten and torture the crew with his cackling designer dolls.
Oddly enough, despite six kills, there’s very little to no gore earning this movie a PG rating so grab the kids and stream TOURIST TRAP to ensure they’ll never go near a department store ever again.