Underknown and underrated, 'Tourist Trap' is the ultimate horror film for those who are afraid of mannequins or dummies.
is a 26-day project that highlights some of our favorite horror films from each letter of the alphabet. The only criteria: The films chosen can’t have been used in our previousa 100-day project to choose the best horror film of every year from 1920-2019, nor previous ABCs of Horror entries. With many heavy hitters out of the way, which movies will we choose?in particular—have a tendency to be among the strangest and most individualistic that the genre has to offer.
So too is the film interesting for the fact that it’s a minor footnote in many careers that included more prominent billings. It’s the feature debut of director David Schmoeller, who would team up with producer Charles Band to create the long-lastingfranchise a decade later. Editor Ted Nicolaou would likewise become a regular at Band’s Empire Pictures and Full Moon Features, directing the likes of.
The result is a surreal sort of quasi-slasher, familiar in some ways , and decidedly original in others. Schmoeller is said to have been a fan of experimental filmmakers such as Alejandro Jodorowsky and Luis Buñuel, and it’s that kind of surrealism that seeps into his work here, seeming to remove entire scenes from easy, literal interpretation.
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