Motel Hell (1980) ** Old Review

Vincent(Rory Calhoun, looks like just a good ole boy, but something sinister hides under those supposed kind eyes)has the finest, most renowned meats in the county. Everyone loves that meat. Vincent is only so glad to furnish his crowd with what they believe is ham, but they have no idea of what they are really munching down on with glee. Vincent and his large sister Ida(Nancy Parsons)really put a lot of work and joy into their meat business. They feel they are not only supplying their community but doing a little part for the man upstairs. Well, that secret ingredient for Vincent and Ida's renowned meat is..human flesh! Oh, but Vincent feels he's justifiably doing a favor for God by replenishing his customers with human meat. Ida justifies their actions by following her mantra of, "Somebody's got to take responsibility for the planet." Vincent also feels that there's too many people in the world and not enough food. And, Vincent sure enjoys setting up traps to catch his human meat. We watch as unwary travellers driving down the wrong highway run across bear traps and shotgun bullets piercing their tires. They then take the human beings they catch, bury their bodies up to the neck in fertile soil, sever the vocal chords so that they can only gurgle without being able to cry for help, and await certain doom. If the victims are lucky, Vincent and Ida might snap their necks. One mistake Vincent makes is taking the very sexy Terry(Nina Axelrod..interesting name considering it might describe a situation for a lot of males as they see her rack)into their home..while "planting" her boyfriend, who she is told is dead and buried, in the human meat garden. Sheriff Bruce Smith(Paul Linke)is the black sheep of the family as he doesn't understand that his brother and sister are cooking human flesh for jerky.

 Will anyone stop Vincent and Ida's dastardly deeds? This is one sick puppy. Tongue definitely in cheek. How's this for casting..Wolfman Jack plays a reverend! And, John Ratzenberger(you know Cliff the mailman on Cheers)plays a heavy metal rocker who gets planted in the meat garden!!

 user comments from January 21, 2007 from my old IMDb account

The title of my user comments had "Meat's Meat and Man's Gotta Eat!"