"Meat's meat, and man's gotta eat".
Loved checking into MOTEL HELL again last night, my first visit in quite a few years. The stay was more enjoyable than ever. This 1980 flick is such an offbeat gem, it's definitely one of the better and more original American horror movies from a period where the genre was starting to become dominated by cookie-cutter stalk and slash films. It really is like a classic 1950s EC horror comic brought to celluloid life, and it mixes a very pleasing blend of satirical humour, horror, and doomed romance. The gurgling sound which the planted victims make when they try to talk, after having their vocal cords removed, is quite unsettling. The Scream Factory Blu-ray looks very nice. I remember when Rory Calhoun's MOTEL HELL character graced the cover of FANGORIA #9, it stuck out on the newsagent racks from a mile away. With his check flannel shirt, denim overalls, bloodied chainsaw, and genuine pig's head mask, Farmer Vincent is a memorable villain of early-eighties horror. Surprised no one like NECA has produced a toy figure of him as yet, seems like it would be a natural (of course, there would also have to be an accompanying figure of Nancy Parson's Ida character).
