Motel Hell

Name: Motel Hell
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Released: October 24, 1980
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Dick Curtis, E. Hampton Beagle, Elaine Joyce, Monique St. Pierre, Nancy Parsons

1980

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Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA) | Release Date: October 24, 1980 | R

Starring: Dick Curtis, E. Hampton Beagle, Elaine Joyce, Monique St. Pierre, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Paul Linke, Rory Calhoun, Rosanne Katon, Wolfman Jack

Summary: A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Director: Kevin Connor

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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John Stanley

“Meat’s meat and a man’s gotta eat” is the kind of line that makes this an offbeat horror treat. Some moments are satirical of other horror films, yet they carry a horrific impact, so you may not have much time to laugh before fright sets in. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Motel Hell is a welcome change-of-pace; it's to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as "Airplane!" is to "Airport." It has some great moments. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The tone of this 1980 feature is too muddled for it to be really memorable, but it's impressively slick, with intimations of the adult decadence themes that informed Roger Corman's Poe films of the 60s. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

MOTEL HELL could have been a great black comedy, but the uneasy direction of Kevin Connor fails to get most of the picture off the ground. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

This film’s pleasures are extremely mild, but they’re discernable for the curious fan of retro redneck horror, or, far more likely, for the genre critic looking to finish their dissertation pertaining to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s vast influence on the 1970s and 1980s grindhouse movie’s vision of gleeful small-town Americana hypocrisy. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Director Kevin Connor, coming off a string of British horror films and Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations, never turns Motel Hell into an all-out comedy, but humor is always part of the mix. Read full review

Gary Arnold

The most perfunctory and least imaginative of the recent cycle of horror melodramas, Motel Hell may be credited with a fleeting wry touch, but it wears out its welcome by running a minimum of ghoulish stunts into the ground. [25 Oct 1980, p.F4]

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villain_edits

Feb 28, 2022

Bem diferente do que eu esperava mas muito divertido, essas paradas meio non-sense da trama, dos personagens é bem bizarro, tosco, mas divertido, gostei dos visuais, do gore, da trama, bem daora.

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