Tourist Trap
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, measured slasher / mannequins, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Tourist Trap (1979) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive slasher · mannequins · cult entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Tourist Trap
What watching it is actually like.
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