TOURIST TRAP

Eileen and her boyfriend Woody are driving through a secluded rural area. When their car gets a flat tire, Woody goes to find a gas station. Their friends Becky, Jerry and Molly, are traveling in a different vehicle. They reach Eileen and all drive off to pick up Woody. Meanwhile, Woody has found a gas station that appears deserted. He enters the back room but becomes trapped by an unseen force. Various mannequins appear and cackle as objects fly off the shelves at him until a metal pipe impales and kills him.

The others find Slausen's Lost Oasis, a tourist trap, but their vehicle mysteriously breaks down. Jerry tries to fix the car and the girls go skinny dipping. Mr. Slausen—the owner of the tourist trap—appears, holding a shotgun. He seems embittered by the decline of his business since the construction of a new freeway. The girls apologize for trespassing.

Slausen offers to help Jerry with the car, but insists the group go to his house with him to get his tools. There, they see the tourist trap: animated waxwork figures. Eileen is curious about a nearby house, but Slausen insists that the women should stay inside the museum. He takes Jerry to fix their car. Eileen leaves to find a phone in the other house. There, she finds mannequins and a stranger wearing a grotesque mask appears behind her. Various items in the room move of their own accord, and the scarf Eileen is wearing strangles her to death.

Slausen returns, saying that Jerry drove into town. When the others tell him that Eileen left, he goes to the house and finds Eileen has been turned into a mannequin. He returns and tells Molly and Becky he did not find Eileen. Frustrated, the women leave to search for her themselves. Becky enters the house and finds a mannequin resembling Eileen. She is attacked by the masked killer and multiple mannequins. She later wakes up tied in the basement with Jerry. Jerry says the killer is Slausen's brother Davey. There is another captive, Tina, who is strapped to a table. She is killed by the masked man. Jerry frees himself and attacks the killer but is overpowered.

Molly is pursued by the masked man. She meets Slausen, who drives her to the museum and gives her a gun while he goes inside. The masked man appears and Molly shoots, but the gun is loaded with blanks. Molly then bashes the man in the head with the butt of the shotgun, to which he then brushes off the rest of his mask with his hands, revealing himself to be Slausen. Molly is soon captured and restrained to a bed.

Becky and Jerry escape from the basement but get separated. Slausen takes Becky back to the museum. There, she is shot at by figures of American Civil War soldiers, one of which being a replica of General Custer, before she is killed by an Indian chief figure who throws a knife at her, stabbing her in the back of the head. Back at the house, Jerry arrives to rescue Molly, but he has unknowingly turned into a mannequin. Slausen dances with the figure of his wife, and Molly sees that the wife has become animated. Traumatized, she kills Slausen with an axe.

The following morning, a now-insane Molly drives away with the mannequin versions of her friends.

The killer's true identity is revealed, and the surviving friend confronts him in a climactic struggle involving mannequins and telekinetic attacks.

The film concludes with the central threat—a telekinetic psychopath—being faced head-on by the last survivor, paying off the buildup of supernatural and psychological terror. The ending cements the film's blend of slasher and supernatural elements, using the mannequins not just as set dressing but as active participants in the horror, while leaving a final image that lingers in the mind.