TOURIST TRAP / A Place To Lose Your Mind And Soul - 1979

In today's wild and weird story, a group of young friends on vacation are stranded at a secluded roadside museum where they are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekinetic powers to control the attraction's mannequins!

This one stars Chuck (SOYLENT GREEN) Connors, Jocelyn (THE ENFORCER) Jones, Jon (END OF THE WORLD) Van Ness, Robin (DEATH WISH II) Sherwood, Tanya (THE BEASTMASTER) Roberts, Dawn (MOMMIE DEAREST) Jeffory and Keith (WITHOUT A TRACE) McDermott.

Hey, looks like that Slausen place could be some sort of tourist trap!.. Well then, let's make sure we don't go there!! The girls decide to go skinny dipping in a pond instead. A Mr. Slausen shows up and tells them that there are snakes swimming around in the pond, then leaves.

And wouldn't you know it, their vehicle broke down and they have to rely on Mr. Slausen to help them out. He takes them to his place, what could possible go wrong, right?!

It doesn't take long before things get weird. One girl gets locked inside a room full of mannequins and is greeted by Slausen's 'brother' who wears a mask!

Dude's a maniac, he takes some special goop and slaps it on her face to satisfy some craven need! Don't worry, she doesn't make it out alive...

Molly's having a crappy time at the tourist trap. She thinks she has conked the brother over the head with a rifle butt, but, it ends up being Slausen himself, he's crazy!

Slausen spends much of his time with his mannequins, that's him in the blond wig, just talking and acting out for them. It's already established that Slausen has eerie psychic powers!

There's just something about this shot that I like, reminds me of a painting I did in the eighties about Martian Mummies invading Earth in their flying saucer.

In Slausen's man cave, this wooden Indian tosses a hatchet and wins a prize!

Poor Molly is seemingly the last survivor, Slausen likes her. Jerry, the only guy, comes into the room. Molly tell him to kill Slausen with his ax, but, he's a mannequin!! First, he pulls Jerry's arm off, and to make sure she understands what's happening, he pulls the head off too!

But, when Slausen is dancing with a mannequin that turns into a woman, Molly drops the ax on his neck, surprise mofo!!

So, the danged mannequins start screaming their heads off!......

We'll give Molly the last word... There's a lame surprise ending that's not worth mentioning. So, there you go, Hollywood changed Chuck into a raving lunatic! Tune in on Wednesday as we wind down November, here, at The Dungeon!..

1970's QUASI-SCARY TV MOVIES!

Here's a list of 13 TV movies made in the 1970's that either I, or Lord Litter, have found on the Internet Archive (And you could too for free) that I'm almost sure I'm never going to get around to watching, but should somehow be included here at least for historical significance! With that said........

....Here we go! In chronological order starting with...

"Weekend Of Terror" from 1970 with Robert Conrad, Carol Lynley, and Lee Majors!

"Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts."

Sounds like a good time, how could you go wrong there?!?

 From 1971, "A Howling In The Woods" starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden who were both not only in "I Dream Of Jeannie," but also on "Dallas!!"

 The 1972 ghost story "The Stone Tape!"

 Barbara Eden is back in the 1972 movie, "The Woman Hunter" with two other Dungeon notables, Robert Vaughn and Stuart Whitman!
 "There's A Killer In Paradise!"

 Also in 1972 was "Night Of Terror" with Martin Balsam, Chuck Connors, Donna Mills, and Agnes Moorehead!
"He's Out There!"

 1973 delivered "A Cold Night's Death" with Robert Culp and Eli Wallach!

 Also in 1973 came "The Norliss Tapes" with Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson!!

"Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality!" 

 The cast of the 1974 movie "Scream Of The Werewolf" was a fairly all-star affair that included Peter Graves, Clint Walker, Jo Ann Pflug, and Don Megowan, who ironically enough or not, was the Sheriff in the 1956 classic, "The Werewolf!"

The 1974 movie "The Day The Earth Moved" also had a cast of immense pop culture proportions, that included Jackie Cooper, Clevon Little, Stella Stevens, and Beverly Garland, but I still doubt I'll ever watch it!

 "Curse Of The Black Widow" from 1977 also had a fairly all-star cast that included
Anthony Franciosa, Donna Mills, Patty Duke, June Lockhart and Sid Caesar!
Big Girl!!

"Night Terror" aka "Night Drive" also came out in 1977 with Valerie Harper! 

Housewife vs. Psycho!

By 1978, it was time for "Devil Dog:Hound Of Hell," with a killer cast that included Richard Crenna, Yvette Mimieux, and Martine Beswick! (Okay, I might have to watch it some day just for those two!)
"A Halloween Howler!"

"A teenage girl is harassed by a stalker" in another 1978 movie called "Are You In The House Alone?"
So, there you go! IF I've slighted your favourite movie, then by all means leave a comment, and I'll make sure and give it the treatment it deserves, but until then, Aloha, Auf Wiedersehen, & Buenos Noches!

THE HORROR AT 37,000 Feet - An All-Star TV Movie (1973)

Lynyrd Skynyrd hit #27 on the Billboard charts in 1975 with "Saturday Night Special," but two years earlier there was a TV movie called "The Horror At 37,000 Feet!" Combine the two, and you end up here!

For a TV movie, I'm giving "The Horror At 37,000 Feet" 37 and a half stars because for starters, it was able to keep my attention, which is a major ordeal these daze, and number two, it has a killer cast that would be fun to watch no matter what they were doing!

Just to get started, you've got the amzing Chuck (The Rifleman) Connors as the Captain of this doomed flight!

Who else is on the Who's Who list of passengers on this journey to Hell? How about the incredible Paul (Catfish In Black Bean Sauce) Winfield?

Then there's Roy (The Invaders) Thinnes and Jane Merrow as this happy couple! Among a lot of other things, Jane was a chorus girl in the Herbert Lom version of "The Phantom Of The Opera!"

And Yes......The Shat is back! His significant guitar strummin' other is Lynn (Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun) Loring!

The lovable Buddy Ebsen is a lot grumpier on this flight than he ever was as Jed Clampett!

France (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) Nuyen just really wants to get home!

H.M. Wynant was in "The Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Howling Man," and is the Co-pilot, and Russell (The Professor on Gilligan's Island) Johnson is the Co-Co-pilot!

The creepy little girl is Mia (Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains) Bendixsen!

Darling Darleen Carr as one of the stewardesses in the white plastic go-go boots and short skirts is the frosting on the cake! Darleen was also the voice of the girl in Disney's 1967 "The Jungle Book!"

As you can see the roster of talent here is first string and top shelf, like here in the background are Will (Sugarfoot) Hutchins and Tammy (Can't Stop The Music) Grimes! 
I just love this fustercluck of horror shot!

 There is some scary going on too!!

Okay, we've got a big scary mess on our hands, so what are we going to do about it Bill?

 

In The End, the pizza is burnt........

.......and The Shat just has to go!!

Anything else you want to know you can figure out for yourself, because you can watch it at your leisure for free on YouTube right here:

"The Horror At 37,000 Feet"
Have a Nice Day!!