Hottoceame
The Age of Commercialism
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Michael Ledo
Evelyn Chambers (Anna Chappell) is mentally ill. She runs the Mountaintop Motel which are essentially roach cabins. Underneath the cabins is a connecting tunnel which allows Evelyn to visit or place critters in the room of guests who are also poorly developed.Guide: No F-bombs. Topless scenes are all from behind. Near sex scenes.
lost-in-limbo
After borrowing it off a friend and not expecting much, "Mountaintop Motel" aka "Mountaintop Motel Massacre" turned out to be a nice little surprise from the 80s (which was originally shelved for a couple years before its "86" release). While being on the cheap with limited resources, its low-key approach doesn't hamper the fun of this dark rural psycho shocker. Well it didn't for me. After getting off to a glum, slow start, it gradually grows suspenseful in its taut layout (secluded backwoods setting) where its creepy, twisted underlining breaks out (although that eerily offbeat music score provides an unnerving tone throughout). Leading to some savage attacks (despite some tacky gore) and a collected, spaced out performance by Anna Chappell as the motel owner who uses the tunnels beneath the motel rooms to terrorise her guests.The solemn, paper-thin story probably could have made much more of the situation (ending on a lacklustre cat and mouse climax) and especially its supernatural angle/ or maybe it was the emotional breakdown into insanity, but its conventional structure conceals many strange surprises. Nothing is really brought up about the central character's unstable mind; especially why she was had spent time in a mental hospital. We just watch her slowly lose it, after accidentally killing her daughter she begins to hear her whispering voice in her head. The methodical direction grinds away, but there are some effectively lit set-pieces. There's okay bunch of performances by the cast; led by actor Bill Thurman as a boozy Reverend.
anxietyresister
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
The_Void
I've never professed to be a fan of slashers, and films like this one are the reason why. Mountaintop Motel Massacre is just as trashy as it's name suggests, but it's also a 'slasher by the numbers' with few surprises and, even worse, few good kill scenes and very little violence, which kind of makes viewing it pointless. As you could probably guess from the title, the film takes place in and around a motel, so no prizes for guessing where the inspiration for that comes from. There's no mystery as to the identity of the killer as it's announced as being an elderly lady named Evelyn right at the start of the film. Evelyn has been staying in a mental home for the last few years but is finally released and put back in charge of the Mountaintop Motel. It's not long before her old urges take over and she kills her own daughter. Luckily for her, the police don't put two and two together and she manages to convince them all that it was an accident. However, the voices in her head are still there and telling to kill everyone, so she sets about doing that.My main problem with this mess was the killer. Having an old bag as the murderer is not a good idea as she completely fails to create a formidable screen presence and despite slashing around with a sickle, it's never very frightening or believable. The acting is terrible all round and the film is very shoddily made, which is really not all that surprising considering the type of film this is. The film also fails to create any interesting characters, with only a braggart pretending to be a music producer creating any entertainment value. The film barely contains any nudity and there isn't much violence either. There's a couple of decent kill scenes involving a sickle; one of which sees a girl get it straight through the cheeks, but this is actually really disappointing as we don't get to see the sickle go in and there's no gore - and since the film proclaims itself to be a 'massacre', I'm sure the fact that the gore is lacking will be an issue for most people who tune into this one. Overall, this may do a little more for fans of eighties slashers than it did for me; but really, I don't think anyone who would miss much by skipping this one.
