Tourist Trap (film)

Tourist Trap
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Schmoeller
Written by
  • David Schmoeller
  • J. Larry Carroll
Produced byJ. Larry Carroll
Starring
CinematographyNicholas von Sternberg
Edited byTed Nicolaou
Music byPino Donaggio
Production
company
Charles Band Productions
Distributed byCompass International Pictures[1]
Release date
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000[3]

Tourist Trap (originally released in the UK as Nightmare of Terror) is a 1979 American supernatural slasher film directed by David Schmoeller and starring Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Jon Van Ness, Robin Sherwood, and Tanya Roberts. The film follows a group of young people who stumble upon a roadside museum run by a lonely eccentric, where an unknown killer with psychokinetic powers begins to murder them. Schmoeller co-wrote the script with J. Larry Carroll who served as producer for the film alongside Charles Band.

  1. ^ Gildersleeve 2017, p. 85.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference champlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Schmoeller, David. Tourist Trap (Making of Documentary). Full Moon Features.