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The one aspect that makes Motel Hell hard to watch...


I can't get past the ugly, frumpy, weeble-wobble psycho wife. You mean to tell me they couldn't have cast a better looking actress? I mean she looks like she came out of the Gulag.

Other than that this film has hit all: harvesting humans for consumption, hot s and m chicks and is just the epitome of a sleazy 80's low budget horror flick.

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It's his sister, not his wife. It's mentioned a few times, plus how could he have married the girl if h already had a wife ? Come on now

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...and it adds to the comedic aspect of the film.

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The one aspect that makes Motel Hell hard to watch... err like it's a incoherent utter pile of *beep*

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I liked this movie and it didn't make it hard to watch. The character is supposed to be unattractive, I've seen Nancy Parsons, the actress you are referring to, in other things and she wasn't a bad looking heavyset woman. They wanted her unattractive to make her jealousy of the pretty blonde character understandable.

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Like it's been said already, she is his sister, not the wife. But I do agree, she played a rather cooky role... sometimes she played it like she was completely insane... but when she spoke she seemed quite normal. I can see what she was going for, but it either didn't come out right in the final cut or she didn't achieve what she was trying to do. Which is surprising, because she nailed playing the bitch in Porky's perfectly.

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She reminded me of half-a-dozen hideous grind house villains. I thought she was brilliant!

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She reminded me of half-a-dozen hideous grind house villains. I thought she was brilliant!

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Yeah only women you deem attractive should be in movies! Let's run everything by this guy first.

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Yeah only women you deem attractive should be in movies! Let's run everything by this guy first.

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She was pitch-perfect in her role and a comedic genius to boot.

Very brave too. Most actresses only take the glamor roles or are so vain they won't do anything that wouldn't put them in a good light.

Nancy Parsons is awesome.

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She looked kind of porky.

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She was pitch-perfect in her role and a comedic genius to boot.

Very brave too. Most actresses only take the glamor roles or are so vain they won't do anything that wouldn't put them in a good light.

Nancy Parsons is awesome.

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Bravo to everything you have said. Nancy Parsons was a gem and the OP is an idiot. Ida needs to get her weeble-wobble hands on them, to cure the rumbles in her tummy.

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I'm just HUNGRY, that's all!

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Well go and get something to eat then.
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THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM AT ALL!

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So you must look a certain way to be in movies now? Not everyone in real life looks like a model so why should everyone in movies?

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Two words: Miss .... Balbricker ....

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Yeah...she was great in Porky's. The shower room scene is definitely a classic.

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