
Tourist Trap
1979 · MovieA group of stranded travelers finds shelter at Slausen's Lost Oasis, a rundown roadside wax museum. The mannequins there move on their own, and the man who runs the place has telekinetic powers he's not using kindly.
Practical effects horror gets its gore and monsters from physical craft created on set, such as prosthetics, puppetry and miniatures, rather than computer graphics added later. Foam latex. Animatronics. In-camera blood rigs. The techniques behind curated practical effects horror are half the story. These films are on this list because the craft holds up, sometimes better than anything a render farm could produce. Watch the making-ofs. You'll never see these the same way.

A group of stranded travelers finds shelter at Slausen's Lost Oasis, a rundown roadside wax museum. The mannequins there move on their own, and the man who runs the place has telekinetic powers he's not using kindly.

Four directors, four very different approaches to the same source material. At least two of the segments are legitimately great.

A silent drifter stuck in a small Nevada town agrees to scrub a shuttered family fun center overnight in exchange for car repairs. When the animatronic mascots come for him, he fights them without ever breaking his shift.
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