
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.
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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.

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Wallace Bryton travels to Manitoba to interview a retired seafarer and finds that the host has a very specific creative project in mind for the visit.

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The Until Dawn film places a new group in the mountain setting from the game and uses the butterfly effect mechanic as narrative structure.

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David and Amy Fox check into a remote motel and find a stack of tapes that contain footage of previous guests being murdered in the same room.

Gemma and Tom follow an estate agent to a development of identical houses and can't find their way back out. The house they can't leave contains a child that isn't theirs.

Chloe moves to Bucharest for work and notices a man who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.

We Bury the Dead follows a group whose approach to the deceased conflicts with what the deceased become.

Multiple teenagers in a Connecticut suburb are each connected to a single act of violence in ways that unfold across the film.

Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original Elm Street, finds herself having experiences that suggest Freddy was never entirely fictional.

Nolan inherits a building once used as a children's entertainment venue and is forced to survive the night with its mechanical residents.

Three backpackers get stranded in the Australian outback and accept help from a local who knows the area very well.

A former UN investigator is pulled back into service to trace the origin of a zombie outbreak spreading faster than any model predicted.

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A hiking group travels through territory controlled by a commune called the Foundation, who have been living in isolation for generations and defend their home by their own rules.

The wrong turn territory has more family members and the sequel makes clear immediately that it intends to go further than the original.

A prison transport convoy is attacked in the Oregon wilderness and the surviving guards and inmates have to work together against something living in the woods.
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