Motel Hell

"Meat is meat, and man's gotta eat."

- Ida Smith

Motel Hell is a horror-comedy directed by Kevin Connor and released theatrically on October 24th, 1980. The film is a gory spoof of the slasher genre, poking fun of seminal classics such as Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In the film, Vincent and Ida Smith are farmers who gain local notoriety for Vincent's famous smokehouse sausages. What most don't realize is that the main ingredient in Farmer Vincent's recipe is people. The Smith's acquire their victims from the Motel Hello and bury them up to their necks in the ground, fattening them up to produce the highest grade quality of meat. When the locals begin to notice people going missing from the hotel, Farmer Vincent's own brother, Sheriff Bruce Smith is called in to investigate.

Notes & Trivia

 * Motel Hell grossed $1,924,776 over its opening weekend. It was screened in 757 theaters, averaging $2,542 per theater.


 * Motel Hell was released to DVD on September 13th, 2004. The film was also packaged with Deranged as a "Midnite Movies" double-feature on August 27th, 2002.