Tourist Trap

House of Plastic This clearly inspired *House of Wax*, there's so many similarities. Mixed with what could be the origin story of [spoiler]*Carrie*'s father[/spoiler]. I like the [spoiler]telekinetic powers to control the mannequins even though it's never explained (are they rogue *X-Men*?)[/spoiler], gives it a bit of spice and unpredictability. The mannequins are effectively creepy. Apart from that though it's your regular slasher story. A decent one. Apart from one kill, I found them pretty basic and they don't show much. A good score but it's a little too intense and loud at times. Still a fun watch mostly for the out of the ordinary aspects mentionned.

The opening scene with the supernatural mannequin attack was unnerving and very effective. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie doesn't equal those early scares. There are some really good moments though, and if you are scared of mannequins, wax figures, etc., you should get plenty of chills from this. It's not gory to any extent and like almost all Horror movies, people do dumb things. It's frankly pretty overt in this movie. There's a twist about 2/3rds of the way through that really isn't surprising at all. Chuck Connors was an unusual casting as Mr. Slausen and probably contrary to most others, I didn't like him much in the role. It's not socially acceptable to say things like this anymore, but Tanya Roberts and Robin Sherwood were beautiful damsels in distress. I would have liked one of those two as lead actress instead of Jocelyn Jones.