4. Tourist Trap (1979)
Tagline: “Every year young people disappear.”
Good movie taglines should inform us of what the film is about, but still be cryptic enough to leave some mystery. Tourist Trap almost understood this. Almost.
“Every year young people disappear” is certainly informative, but it reads more like the start of a public service announcement than a movie tagline. It’s also cryptic, but in the wrong way: we’re not entirely sure how it pertains to the film itself. So, though Tourist Trap‘s tagline sort of understood the brief, it still managed to get it very, very wrong.
Attaching this sort of weird, blanket statement to you movie poster is an odd choice. It’s even worse when you consider that Tourist Trap has a super unique and distinctly weird horror premise that’s bound to draw people in regardless. A tagline this bad only hurts the film it’s trying to promote, and it really doesn’t reflect how interesting Tourist Trap really is. Still, thanks for the announcement, we guess.