after a group of young friend experience car trouble whilst travel off the beaten track and they accept an offer of help from lonely local mr. slausen ( chuck connors ) and owner of a nearby museum full of historical wax mannequin . once at the creepy roadside attraction and the friend be stalk by a mask wear lunatic who can bring the museum dummy to life through the power of the mind . tourist trap bad guy be a demented cross between the texas chain saw massacre leatherface and anthony and the scary kid from the classic twilight zone episode it a good life and whilst the plot be a blend of element from the aforementioned tcm and hitchcock psycho and and house of wax . the atmosphere and execution of tourist trap and however and be so totally off kilter that and in this respect and it virtually impossible to draw comparison with other early movie . director david schmoeller continually inventive and unpredictable treatment of his own script give the film a distinctly nightmarish quality and and with a brilliant left field performance from connors and an impossibly creepy score from pino donaggio and a collection of truly unsettling mannequin with detachable jaw and and the presence of super sexy tanya robert and who spend the film in ( and briefly out of ) tiny denim hot pant and a figure hug boob tube and tourist trap be a totally unforgettable and ultimately one of a kind horror experience well deserving of it cult following .