Tourist Trap : Did this movie scare you as a kid?

Did this movie scare you as a kid?

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Glad to see I'm not the only one. I was very young when I first saw this movie on cable and it scarred me. It really, really disturbed me. For a good while after seeing it, I was not only creeped out by department store manniquins, but it gave me nightmares and made it very difficult to sleep. For some reason, it was the part where he's chasing Molly with the manniquin head of Woodie by the fence and it's mouth opening by itself and screaming was the one that shook me up the most.

Years later I would discover that my mother-in-law, although older me when she saw it, felt the same way about it. This past weekend, she asked me to bring the DVD over so she could watch it and see if it still scares her the same. She said it didn't scare her as much and was almost laughable at times, but that it still gave her the creeps.

However, today it is one of my favorite horror mivies. In fact, I rate it number 2 on my list. My father and I still quote dialogue from the movie on occasion and I have become so obsessed with it that I have written two songs about it.

Interesting side note; Stephen King claims this as one of his all time favorite horror films.

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Scared me too!...

I had seen my fair share of horror films as a kid in the 80's, so by the time I saw TOURIST TRAP on TV at about age 14, I would've thought I'd be more resistant to it, being relatively "tame" by horror standards.

Man, was I wrong. This movie freaked me out beyond measure, more than any FRIDAY THE 13th-type slasher flick. It's one of those films that makes you have to glance around and make sure nobody's staring at you when you're alone in the room.

It's still a little campy, but really delivers the chills. I still find mannequins creepy to this day (that old Twilight Zone episode didn't help much either).

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.

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me too. when watching it i looked at a shadow in my room and was afarid of what is in the shadow. that is what this movie does, it opens up your imagination to wild and nightmarish and horrible things.

you then are scarred by it and disturbed by it and petrified by it. and it is unmerciful in it's unrelenting fear it gives you once the scary scene at the gas station with the doll starts to the end.

lukejbarnett

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exatly me too, i'll never look at a department store or any other place mannequin comfortable ever again. i will always be disturbed everytime i see a mannequin. to this film's credit it makes animated mannequins believable and very eerie and creepy.

lukejbarnett

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Yes, definitely! But what I remember most is the mannequins mouths dropping open with the music or sounds going "Awwwwwww!" or something like that. It was creepy (and weird and funny), but mainly scary.



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Hell yes! I was like 7 when I saw it on Cinemax. The plaster-over-the-girl's-face scene haunts me to this day.

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I rented this over and over when I was a kid, yes my parents agreed with that. I was a fan of horror movies back then.

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This one messed me up as a kid. It gave me some great nightmares. The only other flick that came close to this one was Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Watched both recently as I knew they weren't as scary as a kid. They both were great and brought scary images that were in my head as a kid. The common theme that I saw was that the hero didn't die at the end but was a mental basket case from the experience. I think that is what made it even more memorable and scary.

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As a kid? No. As an adult, hell yes!

This is easily one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen. Debatable as to whether I'd call it "scary" or not, but very creepy. Some scenes do make me wonder why on earth it got a PG rating in the US.

You can rest your mind at last, you've resolved the horrors past...

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uh why do you think it's not scary? this movie is freaking terrifying and real fear petrifying.

and it is one of the most grueling, harrowing, hardest films to finish watching that has ever been made.

lukejbarnett

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Me, 2! When I was a boy, I came across this while channel surfing & the scene of the girl get slowly covered in the face w/ plaster still resonates in my memory. I don't no y I didn't turn away; I guess watching a gradual "torture-then-kill" scene captivated me as per horror film.

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Add myself to this list. I remember channel surfing cable as a kid during the early 80s and coming across this scene and it scared the crap out of me. The scene stuck with me. For the last several years I searched the internet trying to find out what movie this was and today I have found it. My search is over!!

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Scared me as an adult. I never saw it as a kid.


"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"

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exactly me too holy fuck this movie gets under your skin in a way that few films ever have. i still have scars from watching this film. i never saw it until i was about 25 and even ahving sexx every major horoor film at that point i was horrified, chilled, petrified by this film. it bc it gets it's fear by psychological things and ideas, by mood, and atmosphere it is disturbing.

it is very unnervinga nd reasltiic feven with its' supernatural aspects. it is our mind's imagination that scares us the most bc in it is our worst fears. and this film contains our biggest and worst fears. and ones up our imagination to these fears and makes us vulnerable to these fears.

lukejbarnett

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Oh yes, yes it did. Especially when the guy in the doll mask pops up and says "see my doll!", that just sent shivers down my spine as a kid LOL!

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im still surffering from post traumatic stress disroder from this mvoei which i watched 15 years ago. this movie scares you even if you are 25 and have seen it all in horror movies like i was you will be scared and scarred by this film forever.

it's a lasting film and an enduring film bc it doesn't rely on jump scares or blood or explicit violence it is a psychological film that is very atmospheric and has a great dark mood an atomosphere.

lukejbarnett
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