Episode 084 - Tourist Trap

Published: April 2, 2020, 11 a.m.

What a time to be alive! Here we are in 2020, quarantined up, podcasting from home and dreaming of a day when we can take a random road trip with our friends to check out a roadside tourist trap (the titular type of attraction of this week’s film, “Tourist Trap”)! Now maybe we won’t encounter a mannequin-hoarding, dead-wife-obsessed, telekinetic psychopath with split personalities… but one can always hope! The time capsule of a movie gave us a lot to enjoy even if there was a ton of incomprehensible nonsense, especially the smile-inducing, indelible lead performance by Chuck Connors. Earning a double “stream,” it definitely reached the level of “background movie” at one of Tim’s imaginary house parties.

Where we watched: Shudder

RecommenDEADtions: The Beach Bum/ True Detective (Season 3)

Tourist Trap (1979)

Directed by David Schmoeller

Written by David Schmoeller and J. Larry Carroll