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You're so pretty.
~ Slausen's most repeated phrase.

Mr. Slausen is the main antagonist of the 1979 horror film Tourist Trap. He is a telekinetic man with a severe case of multiple personality disorder who kidnaps people off the highway in order to turn them into puppets.

He is portrayed by the late Chuck Connors.

Biography[]

Though very little is known about Mr. Slausen, he himself tells some things of his past. Slausen was born with telekinetic abilities, which his brother made him suppress by wearing a mask. Sometime, Slausen joined the Navy, but for unknown reasons, he was let go. He met a woman and married her, but she cheated on him with his brother. In a presumably psychotic rage, Slausen murdered them both (possibly with his telekinesis) and immediately regretted it afterwards. Remorseful, Slausen tried to put them back together by making them into sculptures. It can be assumed that Slausen developed the split personality disorder from the trauma of this incident.

Tourist Trap[]

In 1979, a group of college kids break down on the highway near Mr. Slausen's Lost Oasis. One of the boys goes to get a tire, getting distracted by Slausen's house, he goes inside and is killed by Slausen using his telekinesis. While looking for their friend, the girls go skinny dipping in the water near the oasis. Mr. Slausen shows up with a shotgun, but the girls explain their situation. Slausen explains to them that the Lost Oasis used to be popular, but grew to be obsolete after the new highway was built. 

Slausen offers to help Jerry with the jeep, but insists the group go to his house with him to get his tools. There, they see the tourist trap: animated waxworks figures, including armed bandits. Eileen is curious about a nearby house, but Slausen insists that the women should stay inside the museum.

Slausen takes Jerry to fix the jeep, leaving the women. Eileen leaves to find a phone in the other house. There she finds several mannequins inside the house. Someone calls her name, and a stranger wearing a grotesque mask suddenly appears behind her. Various items in the room move of their own accord and the scarf Eileen is wearing tightens and strangles her to death.

Slausen returns to Molly and Becky saying that Jerry drove his truck into town. When told 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 and will leave again to continue the search. The women are frustrated, and later leave the museum to search for Eileen. Becky enters the nearby house and finds a mannequin resembling Eileen. Becky is attacked by the masked killer and then by multiple mannequins. She later wakes up tied up in the basement along with Jerry.

Jerry says the killer is Slausen's brother. Also held captive is a woman named Tina, who is strapped to a table. She is killed when the masked man covers her face with plaster, causing her to suffocate. Jerry frees himself and attacks the killer, but is soon overpowered. Jerry tries to reach for a key but the killer telekinetically moves it from his reach.

Molly is still outside and searching for the others. She is soon 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. The man removes the mask, revealing himself to be Slausen. She panics and tries to elude Slausen but is soon captured and restrained to a bed.

Becky and Jerry escape from the basement, but get separated. Slausen appears and takes Becky to the museum. There the Old West figures begin shooting at her. Becky 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 is revealed to have unknowingly been turned into a mannequin. Slausen dances with the figure of his wife, and Molly sees that the wife has become animated. Traumatized, she kills mentally insane Slausen with an axe.

The next morning, an insane Molly is seen driving away in the jeep with the mannequin versions of her friends.

Victims[]

  • 1: Woody | Impaled by pipe.
  • 2: Eileen | Strangled with scarf.
  • 3: Tina | Suffocated after having her face covered in plaster.
  • 4: Becky | Impaled with knife.
  • 5: Jerry | Unknown, killed off-screen and turned into a puppet.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • His name is spelled Slausen on the billboard and sign, but in the credits it is spelled Slauson.
  • It is implied that Slausen might actually be his brother Davey, though this could just be a personality that Slausen created.
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