Motel Hell

This is just one of those movies that renews your faith in Horror...It's not new (1980) but you can watch it after being sickened by all the modern-horror out there and take a happy trip to a time when a good movie was a good fucking movie. This is one of those good movies...

"Motel Hello" (the 'o' is burned out in the sign) is a run down old shack of a place, famous for the owners special smoked meat which he makes on the premises (in a nearby barn, I think). A tragic motorcycle accident kills a man and seriously hurts his girlfriend, and the owner of the hotel, Vince (played by Rory Calhoun) rescues her and nurses her back to health. She begins to fall in love with Vince, and they soon make plans to marry...However, before the wedding, she begins to gain insight into exactly what Vince is cooking up in the smoking room.

As it turns out, Vince was raised on "odd" meats. Dog meat progressed to human flesh, a delicacy the whole family finds finger lickin' good! So Vince traps road travelers, plants them in the ground up to their necks (of course, he cuts out their vocal cords) and spends countless nights in "the garden" getting them good and fat for harvesting time. Mmmm...gotta love that mystery meat!

I suppose this movie has a special place in my heart due to it's similarities to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. For starters, it involves a family of cannibals, and the final scene in Motel Hell is a chainsaw fight with a twist. The twist being, of course, that one of the fighters is wearing a pig's head!!! Damn, this is a nice movie!! *wicked grin*

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