Mountaintop Motel Massacre

1983

Horror

6
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 2033 2K

b movie

Plot summary

After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle.

Director

Jim McCullough Sr. Photo
Jim McCullough Sr.

Top cast

James Bradford Photo
James Bradford as Sheriff
Amy Hill Photo
Amy Hill as Prissy
Marian Jones Photo
Marian Jones as Mary
Major Brock Photo
Major Brock as Crewshaw
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
880.64 MB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.6 GB
1920*1036
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Drive-In-Freak 5 / 10

Typical '80s New World Pictures slasher

There must have been hundreds of these things made in the early '80s.If you are familiar with this type of film and New World Pictures you almost know what to expect.Typical "B" drive-in slasher film shot in the woods of Louisiana for about $5.27.Falls a bit short on the sleaze and gore you might expect such a film to have,but is still interesting enough to keep your attention.Although I found it watchable,it's just not that interesting.As a "B" film it has a cast and crew are a little too good to make fun of in a "so bad it's good" way.To me this takes away from the fun that can be had looking out for the mistakes that make low budget films so enjoyable.I love bad movies,and this one wasn't bad enough.It falls flat right between too bad to be good and too good to be bad.Recommended for lovers of drive-in cheeze,New World Picture fans,and folks who just can't get enough of the early "80s slashers only.5/10 on the Drive-in-Freak-O-Meter
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 4 / 10

Ah Evelyn...

Jim McCullough Sr. produced Where the Red Fern Grows and Creature from Black Lake before he started directing his own movies like Charge of the Model T's, The Aurora Encounter and Video Massacre. He also acted in The Love Bug and Teenage Monster years before all of that.Initially, a regional movie that plated Louisiana and Mississippi under the titles Mountaintop Motel and Horrors at Mountaintop Motel, it was picked up by New World three years later and retitled before playing in New York City and coming out on home video.Evelyn has been recently released from a psychiatric institution and loses her mind all over again when she catches her daughter Lorie doing a witchcraft ritual. So she does what any of us would do and kills her daughter. She gets away with it. And then she runs a motel called, you guessed it, the Mountaintop Motel.That's when the victims show up, like wanna-be record producer Al, two girls he's trying to do the horizontal lambada with, some newlyweds and a preacher named Reverend Bill McWiley (Bill Thurman, 'Gator Bait). Much like Shakespeare, just about everyone dies.The folks at Vinegar Syndrome have sought fit to rescue this movie from the moldy fate of hiding around on the shelves of the few remaining mom and pop video stores in the country by doing a 2K scan from the original 35mm film and putting this out on blu ray. They really are doing the Lord's work.
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