
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.... (Full plot summary below)
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Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.
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| San Francisco ChronicleJohn 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. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumPeople buried up to their necks and raised for food. Yum? A drive-in classic. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanA perverse film, both in its humor and its horror. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMotel Hell is a welcome change-of-pace; it's to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as "Airplane!" is to "Airport." It has some great moments. |
| Daily DeadHeather WixsonMotel Hell is a rather well-executed dark comedy that plays it fairly straight, much thanks to the outstanding performances from Calhoun & Parsons who give the film a nice sense of gravity against the film's more cartoonish supporting characters. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's meant to be weird, campy and funny but settles for being tasteless, gruesomely awkward and moronic. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonJust on sheer chutzpah, it's got to be one of the most wholly worthwhile American horror films of the early 1980s. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe 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. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussThe movie is slapsticky and obvious, but it includes one genuinely nightmarish concept: Vincent and Ida cultivate a secret garden of moaning and gurgling burlap sacks -- bags that cover the heads of the couple's buried-to-the-neck victims. |
| TheBluFile.comDustin Putman[Blu-ray Review] For genre fans of the offbeat, horrific and tongue-in-cheek, Scream Factory's impressively packed Collector's Edition Blu-ray release of "Motel Hell" is worth seeking out. |