After an accident on the highway, a woman recuperating at a brother- and-sister owned roadside motel nearby finds that the strange number of nearby disappearances are travelers being killed and harvested for a popular meat forcing her to try to stop them.This is really one of the weirdest films from the time period. This comes from the apparent work of the majority of the film where the whole general concept is weird and it is full of this sort of style. There is really no way other to describe it as weird here due to the rather out-there elements featured here from the central storyline of a man and his portly sister putting a special ingredient into their meat and will stop at nothing to get it and keep others from finding out while using some pretty wild ways to keep others from doing so. The manners of going out hunting the pedestrians along the woods which ties into their harvesting methods showing them trapped in the gardening patch with their throats slit provide some laughs, and the way that they came about harvesting their ingredients is some dark black comedy. That is the main element present here as the black comedy more than horror dominates this one as well since there were some scenes that normally shouldn't be funny were twisted in such a way that the results are just out there enough to be funny, from trying to distract someone while a pair of fingers boils up to the top of a soup can and finding the horny couple in the hotel room. The only time it is even near horror is the end, which is some pretty intense stuff from the revolt and attempted training that ends with a great dueling chainsaw fight that is great to behold, mostly for the mask worn throughout that creates one of the defining images from the film. These here manage to work quite nicely here for this one although it does have a big problem here. The main issue for this one is that the film has so much black comedy and no real horror until the end that for those that don't like that style, this will be a really hard film to sit through. A couple of innovative scenes spread liberally through the film are nice, but beyond that, it really isn't that much of a horror film during many of it's supposed scares scenes. The fact that this one is that way for the majority of the film is the problem, tending to come off as camp rather than scary as its weirdness doesn't bother that much, but it is something for those not interested in that style to have to sit through. Even still, this one focuses on the killer more than the victims, another obstacle to overcome which becomes a style that some don't like this approach as there's little about him or his plans that are really interesting. These here are what really hold this one back.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Full Nudity and some mild S&M scenes.

Finally after all these years watched the B classic horror flick "Motel Hell" and it was funny, and a little crazy and a different style of film for sure! It's not a critical success, yet still as a cheap low budget B movie it stands the tale of time. Farmer Vincent and his sister are two rural southern country hick type of folks who run a motel and have a little game of letting visitors in and keeping them later on for lunch meat! That's fresh flesh to dine on! They have even planted a garden of human heads it's like they grow them in the ground of a garden! It was neat and fun seeing Farmer Vincent with a chainsaw and having a pig face in the end! Overall nothing great still a B classic film to check in and check out of!

I watched this film not knowing if I was watching a comedy or a horror movie. It wasn't funny nor scary, so it seems to have not hit either goal. The plot is, a guy named Farmer Vincent is killing passer-bys to his hotel in order to kill them for meat. But for some bizarre reason, he needs to bury them in his garden up to their necks for a month. And apparently, no one notices anything is amiss. Not even the town sheriff who is his younger brother. The movie piled improbable actions on top of improbable actions, with scenes that are supposed to be funny, I guess, but the comedy falls flat.the thing is, the actors in this aren't bad. They just have to repeat garbage that makes no sense.

A combination between a hillbilly and a slasher horror that normally should had been directed by Tobe Hooper but Universal found the script really bad so out goes Tobe who went on to direct The Funhouse (1981). To be honest there's really not that much to see about gory shots if we see what came out the same year, Friday The 13th (1980) but for so many it's the chainsaw and the pig head that makes this movie. It clocks in over 90 minutes and in fact there's a lot of talking going on. Sure, we do see the victims in the garden but nothing looks creepy or whatsoever. Maybe it's disturbing in some way but it's really low on the red stuff. The acting of course of Rory Calhoun as Vincent and and Nancy Parsons as Ida do deliver towards this horror.Maybe you can't take it all to seriously because there's also some black comedy to spot here and there and of course one full frontal and some tits here and there. Still up to today it's a much spoken flick due the pig head who also gave Fangoria some problems when they added that particular picture on their cover and is still one of the most searched issues of Fangoria.Just have a look now that it finally has it's Blu Ray release to see where the cult status came from, the chainsaw and the hog's head.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 1/5