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farmer named Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun)
who owns a motel named Motel Hello as
well as selling terrific meat that people
come by for more seems to go on a hunting
trip while he announces that his motel
has no vacancy at the moment and spots a
couple named Bo (Everett Creach) and
Terry (Nina Axelrod) that wipes out on
their motorbike and knocked unconcious as
Vincent takes them back to his motel and
when Terry wakes up Vincent tells her
that Bo is dead from the accident and
stays at the resort along with Vincent's
sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) as well as
encoutnering their third sibling Bruce
(Paul Linke) who is the local town
sheriff and seems to have eyes for Terry.
At night they send Terry to bed and
Vincent goes hunting but it isn't animals
he's hunting for food which is why his
meat tastes so original in which both him
and Ida have been kidnapping unsuspecting
travellers and burying them in their
garden patch as well as feeding them till
they're just right to kill for being used
for their meats to sell to their
customers as Vincent's motto is "It
takes all kinds of critters...to make
Farmer Vincents fritters"
The film is sick
and twisted but yet well done and
entertained if you're in the mood for it.
The black comedy shows a fair sense of
humor but after you watch it you'd
probably wish you were a vegetarian.
There's nice dark creepy shots with the
bodies in the garden patch which psychs
you out a bit as well as making the movie
mysterious on what's going to happen
later on.
This film is definetely one of those
early 80's cheesy horror cult favourites
for those of you who likes slapstick with
it and a nice summertype feeling to it
too with the area around the lake and
slaughterhouse zone.
To top it off the film almost looks like
a parody to those other flicks like Texas
Chainsaw Massacre but a
different storyline as well as those Herscell
Gordon Lewis cannibal flicks too.
It's a party flick for sure and can be
enjoyed with a group of friends to watch
late at night with the lights off and a
drive-in type of classic too.
The slasher boom was really big when this
one came out with others that would
appeal to the same viewers like Mother's
Day, Friday the 13th
and Prom Night.
The acting is not
too bad as Rory Calhoun shows
alot of great characteristics to his part
showing great timing with his dark
comedic moments while using the victims
for his garden as well as showing a warm
and caring side to the people who don't
know what he's doing too. He showed alot
of good energy to his part along with
great facial expressions too. It's sad he
passed away since he was famous for being
a character actor.
Paul Linke was another good one in
the film as a dimwitted sheriff but he
shows a great charming personality to his
role and perfect timing with his
slapstick humor too. He was the most
energetic one in the film and knew how to
act really goofy. He had the perfect guy
next door looks too.
Nancy Parsons brought her comedic
lines nicely as well as showing her tough
attitude and at the same time, her caring
moments to protect anyone knowing their
deadly deeds. She had a nice freaky look
to playing a demnted one in the film. I
loved her role as an obnoxious gym
teacher in the Porkys
flicks.
Nina Axelrod however was awful and
only had her beautiful looks. She really
lacked when she got emotional or whenever
she had to pick up her energy for the
suspenseful scene's she just didn't. Nope
she wasn't convincing to say the least.
Wolfman Jack seemed to bring his
timing not too bad as a preacher in the
film but I didn't find him funny. Again,
that's just me.
Elaine Joyce seems to really get
down acting like a wild and horny type of
prostitute showing terrific
characteristics and energetic all the way
through. It was a shame that her role
wasn't too big in it.
There's two naked man and a
woman outside running to their car.
Nina Axelrod exposes her breasts in
bed as well as in a bathtub too during
different scene's. Beforehand her shirt
is wet in a lake and is almost see
through.
We have body
pieces of pigs head in a slaughterhouse
etc.
We have a throat sewed up in a garden
patch
There's a bloodied bucket of feet and
other objects
A leg is sawed off
A chainsaw is sawed halfway through a man
looking very bloody
Not overly gory but the graphic moments
make you gringe and gross out nonetheless
but hey this is a black comedy-horror
flick.
Kevin Connor
directs this piece with both wit and
terror too showing many good takes
throughout the plotlines. He shows a nice
beginning with Rory Calhoun
sitting on a chair in the front deck with
the lights saying Motel Hello with the O
flickering as well as him bringing his
shotgun down near a road watching a
motorbike wiping out driven by supporting
actor Everett Creach and Nina
Axelrod with shots on him dragging Creach
in the back trunk of his truck.
There's a good take on bit part child
actresses Shaylin and Heather
Hendrixson as two twins dressed
alike walking into a slaughterhouse
looking around whick looked creepy with
what was there along with a shot on some
pigs on some hooks sliding by and someone
rising up wearing a pig's head and then
them screaming and running back to their
car.
There's a good shot on Nancy Parsons hiding
in a dark room holding up a meat cleaver
with Paul Linke entering her
house and trying to find his siblings and
then Parsons wrestling him down
which looked nicely done.
There's a good dialogue with Calhoun
telling Axelrod about her
boyfriend dead but her sobbing looked
fake which is due to her acting skills
and not the directors. The direction with
him and Parsons towards her
telling her she's lucky to be alive and
in a safe place looking really
heartwarming.
There's a good shot on supporting actor E.
Hampton Beagle snooping around by
jumping over a fence leading to a garden
patch with a shot on a sack moving in a
garden patch and then a shot on his hand
slowly trying to touch it making it look
scary along with him removing it and
showing the head of Creach
moving around trying to speak as well as
a shot on a shovel whacking Beagle
in the head.
There's a good dark shot on bit part
actors played by John Ratzenberger,
Marc Silver and Victoria Hartman
driving speeding along in a van listening
to some heavy rock music with a good shot
on their van wiping out and then Calhoun
coming down and spraying sleeping gas.
We have a good shot on Calhoun
and Parsons looking at these
cast members sleeping in the back of
their trunk along with Calhoun
driving a tractor and plowing holes in
the ground as well as burying them up to
their head in the dirt. There's a good
camera shot looking up on both Calhoun
and Parsons along with Calhoun
putting needles into the three cast
members neck with them yelling in pain
which looked believeably painful as well
as a good close up shot on Silver's
neck with a small dissecting knife about
to cut him which really makes you cringe.
We spot a nice camera shot on all Axelrod,
Calhoun, Parsons and Linke
having a picnic which looked peaceful and
then Parsons laughing out loud
and about to tell them why their meat
tastes so good with Calhoun
slugging her.
There's a good moment with Linke
in a car with Axelrod watching a
nearby drive in movie with their
binoculors and Linke trying to
jump her bones as it looked goofily done
but in good style for a film of this
kind.
We also have a good moment with
supporting actress Monique St. Pierre
trying to speed away crying on a walkie
talkie that someone is out to kill her
along with a good shot on her car being
pushed near a lake.
We spot many good takes on supporting
actress Elaine Joyce using a
whip in a hotel room knocking stuff off
with a shot on the TV screen of Wolfman
Jack preaching and then having Joyce
using her whip to grab supporting actor Dick
Curtis and then getting kinky with
one another along with a good shot on Calhoun
and Parsons holding some rope in
the room not looking pleased. There's a
good shot on Joyce screaming and
freaking out tied up with Calhoun
about to put a gas mask on her and then a
good comedic dialogue between Calhoun
and Parsons afterwards which
offers some chuckles.
There's a good moment with Axelrod
walking into the slaughterhouse and then Parsons
grabbing her by the neck asking her why
she's snooping around.
We spot a good shot on the two of them
splashing around on a tube in their lake
and later on a good shot with Parsons
trying to drown her.
We spot a good moment with Axelrod
trying to make a move on Calhoun
while she's in bed.
There's a good cheesy dialogue between Jack
catching Linke with a Hustler
magazine and him saying he caught a
delinquent reading it which offered some
slapstick.
There's a good goofy moment with Linke
telling Axelrod not to marry his
brother saying he's crazy etc showing
great comedic energy on the two of them
and it looked well done.
There's a good shot on Ratzenberger,
Silver and Hartman in the
ground with Calhoun telling them
what's in front of them which was a
coloured light which looked neat on
camera and them looking hypnotised by it
while some ropes are tied to their necks.
All of this had some neat effects. Then
we have a good shot on Calhoun
driving his tractor and breaking their
necks as well as dragging their corpses
out.
There's some good gross out shots on Parsons
humming away and putting the corpses in
large boiling pots.
We have a good shot on Creach
digging out of the garden patch and
helping the others too as well as good
shots on him and the cast walking around
like zombies and then attacking Parsons.
We have a good dialogue between Axelrod
and Calhoun about what he's
doing.
There's a good struggling moment between Creach
and Calhoun battling one another
in the slaughterhouse.
There's a great shot on Calhoun
wearing a pig's head and approaching with
a chainsaw and some terrific choeography
with him and Linke fighting with
chainsaw and swinging at one another as
well as a good shot on Axelrod unconcious
on a table moving towards a meatcutter.
We have alot of good strong
classical music composed by Lance
Rubin along with some terrifying
violin sounds for the certain suspenseful
moments. There's good piano pounding with
the people who crawled out of the ground
planning to attack the ones that tried to
kill them.
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