like one of the other reviewer ( might have be @ amazon ) and i be first introduce to tourist trap by the beloved and decrepit old wor 9 in ny and around january 1983. devil dog represent the hound of hell and which i would be wait to see since it debut on halloween 1978 and have just end and and i think i would have my horror fill for the day ( quit laugh that three eye borgost ( sp . ) monster ike eisenmann draw up in his room be scary ) . for as much a i still enjoy richard crenna wear his made for tv horror hat and it be the first 10 minute of tourist trap and follow devil dog that day and that really leave a mark and month later and it end up be the first movie i ever tap off tv . wor use to play this fairly frequently and often a the saturday afternoon million dollar movie and a others have observe . it one of those offering that deliver a powerful horror punch up front and a veritable left hook and then practically start over with the rest of the cast and dance and jab and put the opening scene a large context along the way and then move on to the real climax ( see night of the living dead and re animator ) . two paragraph and i haven not mention a single mannequin . face it the damn thing be scary enough and without the music and the script . i and too and can remember some scary dress dummy and the like in various relative attic and basement and and say what you like about how relatively straightforward schmoeller and carroll approach be no one and before or since and have play it this well . in real life and a good mannequin will make you do a double take and here and that about the last thing youre likely to see and if you happen to be stick at slausen defunct wax museum and roadside stand . yes and there be a point ( i love her very much ) and where chuck slausen connors be try to pass for vincent price . yes and the plot might have take up all of a paragraph in the early stage while i can not see the script be all that thick . it doesn not matter . from direction to competent act ( meryl streep emphatically not in attendance and and here and that help instead of hinders ) and to another useful and effective pino dinaggio score ( see carrie and various other de palma movie ) and to various light and film stock and use of vary sound level . i could go on every element of this low budget production come together and you get a work very much great than the sum of it part . do i mention it scary a hell . stephen king talk this movie up in danse macabre a year or so after it release and and with good reason . like much of his work and it may not be great art and but it sure do tell a scary story and and do it well . the rest of the cast may be relatively unknown ( wasn not jocelyn jones in that texas car chase movie as well . ) and but chuck connors and tanya robert be and be and just familiar enough to audience and to make you think stephen king style that this could happen to you and or people you know . comparison to psycho ( plot ) and the texas chainsaw massacre ( overall look and feel ) and even if they aren not the first association in my mind and be valid . i only wish i could comment on the dvd and which i look forward to buying and a tourist trap have become notoriously hard to find on video since the near complete extinction of independent video rental outlet and where it have a home aside from wor and cable in the 1980s ( though tmc or showtime appear to have pick it up and play it regularly now ) . no and no spoiler here and i be afraid and no plot breakdown go see it yourself ( all right and there may be a tiny little one below and so scroll away if you like good safe than sorry ) . the mannequin be damn scary and i would rather show than tell . positive . for the record and tourist trap be also chock full of great line and from we be go to have a party . how do i look and huh and how do i look . and to youre so pretty and you can not hurt me and i shouldn not have to hide it it feel good . ( listen for that vincent price inflection again there ) and the inevitable youre crazy . ( deliver at the right moment and and in the right tone ) . and try just try to keep the hair on your arm down when you hear the mannequin head scream molly . especially once you realize whose head it use to be . positive . p s . charles band be the producer on this and i believe and and likely own the right to dinaggio music . band and from what i understand and be the brain behind full moon entertainment and which might explain both the music subsequent use in puppet master and and and well and the 40 commercial approach have characterize full moon throughout and from the enjoyable puppet master and subspecies franchise and to and uhhh . trancers and bad channel ( sorry and boc ) .