A movie with a PG rating that I’ve wanted to see for many years, "Tourist Trap" manages to be both unsettling and absurd. Mr. Slauson (played by Chuck Connors) is an elderly man who lives at his nearly deserted wax museum and tourist attraction, “Slauson's Lost Oasis.” A new highway has diverted all of his customers, except for the occasional vehicle that conveniently breaks down. Following the initial murder of W…

A group of young people—three women and two men—experience car trouble while traveling through the hills north of Los Angeles and find assistance from a kindly museum owner who lives in the isolated desert area. He has an odd fascination with eerie masks and mannequins, and is portrayed by Chuck Connors. “Tourist Trap,” released in 1979, borrows ideas from various earlier horror films, including “Psycho” (1960), "…