Motel Hell (1980)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 41m
  • 64

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Movie Info & Cast

Producer:

Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe

Release Date:

Oct 18, 1980

Runtime:

1hr 41m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Dick Curtis
  • Everett Creach

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Metacritic

64
metacritic
Based on 7 Critics
6.6

USER SCORE (7)

Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Reviews
75

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.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
60

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.

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Metacritic review by Keith Phipps
Keith Phipps
The Dissolve
63

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.

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Metacritic review by Chuck Bowen
Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
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