To me, this movie is perfection.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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!

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

I can't understand the high praise this movie has got. On the one hand, it's a comedy, on the other it's a horror, but scary, it isn't. It actually plays better as a comedy with some smart and catchy dialogue, and a couple of outlandish scenes, one of which is kinky. It involves a sexed up couple who like to play role reversal gender, while smashing motel room lamps, and turning the room into disarray. This is one couple who get their just desserts, or may'be they just happened to be in the wrong room in the wrong motel. The insane owners, brother (Calhoun) and sister (Parsons) run this remote, and kind of bland country motel where it's occupants are knocked out. The poor schmucks are then taken to a vege garden, secluded by hedges, of course, where they are buried alive, head above soil, and get to live the rest of their days as a source of special ingredient for Farmer Vincent's (Calhoun's) smoked meats. Their vocal chords are ripped out of their throats, so they struggle to speak, their identities hidden, as small hession sacks are stuck around their heads, so when they wriggle about, it's looks like some sort of critter, struggling to get out. Lamps are put up against their faces, as to smoke em', I guess. It's hard to make sense of their whole operation, and this is what has been the fascination with me, every time I watched this flick. It's probably part of the reason I keep watching it. Acting wise, Calhoun and Parsons are great, especially Calhoun, who's affable smile can transform into one of deep harvested anger in the flick of an eye. We really lost a star here folks. Nina Axelrod plays innocent well, as the surviving bride of a less fortunate victim, 30 years her senior, who was murdered at Calhoun's hand. The psychotic duo take her under their wing. The local cop, Paul Linke, who's fun to watch and incidentally, is Vincent's younger brother, falls for her but she chooses to marry Vincent. So, obviously she has a thing for much older blokes. When he confronts her, she retorts with a line that cracks me up. I'm not gonna tell ya. You gotta hear it for yourself. It's the way she says it. But what I love about this movie, is the unforgettable presence of Wolfman Jack as a zealous preacher. He steals a lewd magazine from Linke, his eyes poring over the pages. He said he confiscated it off a kid. As if? I love the scene on the tube, when the kinky couple are being held down, and we keep cutting to the TV, where our Wolfman is doing an ad, phone number displayed across the bottom of the screen. There was no reason to keep cutting back to the tube, but I'm glad the director did. MH is low on gore too. There's only about two bits that stick out, one being at the end with a chainsaw wielding climax, Calhoun's face guised with a pig head, where you just want this mess to end. I love MH's song. I sing it to myself, now and then, out of the blue, accent and all. It's lyrics aptly fill the story's theme, and although this film is well made, one can't help but look at the underlying stupidity of it all. Although a lot of horror fans favor this film, for me it was just another waste of viewing time. And movie buff that I am, to say, "I wouldn't be watching this again", I'd just be an all out liar.