Category: 3/4, slasher, horror, Motel Hell

• Motel Hell (1980)

  

  All the way back in 1980, over 15 years before Scream (1996), slasher films were still being parodied. Back then, movies like Motel Hell were referred to as “sleazoids” and “geek shows” by unimpressed critics including Roger Ebert, who nonetheless gave this film a rare-for-the-genre 3/4 for bringing laughter to the formula. A sun-scorched and…

  Borley Bookworm

  May 21, 2024

  3/4, slasher, horror, Motel Hell

  1980s, horror, Rory Calhoun, slasher