The opening titles play over a prologue that takes place in Spain during the Dark Ages. No, the Dark Ages aren’t those awful years in the early 1980s when grunge was popular (and washing your hair wasn’t), but the Middle Ages. Father Esteban (Richard Moll) is some kind of satanic priest, wearing a hood and all, and he and his gang are up to bad things on a beach, when members of the church arrive and banish Esteban and his devilish mob from Spain.

“Tourist Trap” was one of producer and sometimes director Charles Band’s first productions. Band went on to form Empire Pictures, which made “Re-Animator”, and then he came up with Full Moon, a company that’s been around in one way or another for more than twenty years; Band seems to make comeback after comeback. Full Moon produced buckets of often colorful little direct-to-video movies, the most popular series is the “Puppetmaster” series, the first installment from 1989 was directed by Schmoeller -- yes, the guy who made “Tourist Trap”.

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were both extremely talented writers, but approached the idea of utopian society in totally different ways. This article compares the two stories in a commentary on what the authors would have thought of each other's work.