Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Captivating movie !

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Various travelers on a stormy night book into Mountaintop Motel, only to be killed one by one by crazy proprietor Evelyn. I would be very wary of reviews on here claiming that this is a classic. Well, it's pretty slow, the acting is amateur, the gore minimal (I'm surprised it didn't get a 15 cert instead of an 18 here in the UK) & as it was filmed in Louisiana there is no mountain. The word "Massacre" was added at a later date, but it's hardly that. On the positive side the music was pretty creepy & Evelyn does get a great comeuppance at the end. Probably the best thing about this movie is it's title.

There are four pages of comments for this trash. What are you people, gluttons for punishment or something? Why anybody would sit through such a worthless timewaster and then bother writing about it is beyond me. But here I am doing exactly what I'm chastising you for. *SLAPS WRIST* Call it therapy if you will, but I have to take this opportunity to get back at the studio for unceremoniously ripping 90 minutes from my life and not refunding it. Just a small bit of payback, but better than nothing..An mad old lady murders her daughter and the poor girl's pet rabbit. She claims it was an accident and everybody believes her, but as usual in these films one policeman gets suspicious. She also owns a hotel by a small town, and after the funeral she has a particularly busy night with the predictable assortment of guests e.g: A fat guy, two hot chicks, the loving couple, an old black dude etc. Most destined to be wormfood, but can our doubting Thomas copper save the day before things get TOO bloody?Boredom kicks in early during a long irritating sequence in which the crazy old bat hears her dead daughter's voice in her head and continues it's steady progress as the unlovable stereotypical characters get picked off one by one. This is a genre movie of the worst kind, and whenever anything interesting starts to happen (a teen being hacked up, the beginning of a sex scene) the camera decides to cut away to a pointless unrelated moment, and all sense of excitement is lost. In fact, the only buzz I got from the entire mess was when the ending credits arrived, and the torture was over. HURRAY! Don't bother. 2/10

Evelyn(Anna Chappell)is let out of the asylum and takes up running a lodging of terribly run-down buildings while her daughter is playing satanism in her room. In a disorienting frenzy of trashing the witchcraftian objects and dolls in her daughter's room, Evelyn accidentally kills her with a sickle. The daughter, however, was spouting some sort of demonic gibberish just prior to be diced. This segues into the slasher part of the film where various passersby(including the alcoholic preacher, played by Bill Thurman, who carried Evelyn's funeral services)unknowingly stop off for lodging at the chain of shacks while a storm of nasty rain blasts down. Why anyone would pay for a building this run-down is beyond me..heck, Evelyn should be paying them just for their courage to carry out such a venture. Evelyn, hearing the haunting echoes of her daughter's commanding voice, begins traveling through an underground tunnel which lies under the shacks occupied by the guests. There is a secret door located in each bathroom so that Evelyn can slip in and slash throats using the sickle that murdered her daughter. Before any of the killing started, she tormented them with snakes(one bites the face of the man of a honeymooning couple), rats(crawling all over the preacher), and roaches(enjoying a little free time on the face and body of journeyman carpenter Crewshaw, played by Major Brock). You have advertising executive, Al(Will Mitchel)pretending to be a music exec for Columbia records so he can get laid, while the two girls just need a ride and place to stay for which he so humbly provides.This is one of those weirdo $5 backwoods slashers where the filmmakers probably gathered together friends and neighbors to work cheap on the flick. The acting exposes their lack of talent. The film looks like it was filmed in the cheapest locale in Louisiana which actually adds to the film, I felt, instead of diminishing it. The director has a talent for lighting in ways through darkness and this provides some effective scenes at night..especially when you enter the cavernous tunnels below the shacks. Anna Chappell is effectively shot by the camera in off-angle ways presenting her as quite the creepy, bizarre character that she is. The gore is non-effective and laughable at best.Some effective moments can not compensate, however, for an hour of nearly nothing happening..the pacing drags at a snail's pace. I felt the supernatural aspect fell flat as well. As a slasher, it works as a C-movie of interest to those head-over-heels for micro-budget, "how-low-can-you-go" brand of film-making.

Alright I am a huge fan of horror movies, especially slashers from the 80's. Having said that that this is extremely low budget, cheapness at it's worst. Originally made in 1983 it was dumped and later picked up in 1986. The film itself follows a similar storyline: victims in a secluded area stalked by a killer, this time an elderly deranged woman. As for the movie it is pretty bad even for a slasher and doesn't offer much in terms of entertainment. The story is sluggish and boring, the acting is hammy, and there isn't much killing and hardly any blood or gore. If you have an hour and a half to kill, take a walk and skip this movie.