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Halloween might get all the credit for starting the slasher wave in 1978, but it really began a few years earlier thanks to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. The tale of Leatherface and his family of cannibals was something audiences had never seen before. It might have found its roots in the real-life story of Ed Gein, but it became its own wild nightmare.
'Motel Hell' Isn't a 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Clone — It's a Parody Close Read a synopsis of Motel Hell and you will rightfully think you're in for another Texas Chain Saw Massacre wannabe. Heck, one of the killers even carries a chainsaw! The plot is about a brother and sister, Vincent and Ida Smith , who run their own motel next to their farm called the Motel Hello, but with the light on the"o" fittingly out, hence the title of Motel Hell.
Posts1 When I first got into horror movies as a teen, I couldn't wait to rent Motel Hell. With that plot and the image of a pig-headed killer waving a chainsaw, I was in. Then I watched it, and it was not the movie I had signed up for. That could have been a bad thing — and at the time, I did wish Motel Hell was darker — because what we get instead is a bizarre and hilarious semi-parody of what we've seen before.
✕ Remove Ads 'Motel Hell' Succeeds by Not Being What You Expected Universal wanted a straight-up horror movie, but that's not what the Jaffes intentionally wrote. Vincent and Ida might make meat out of people, and there is the chainsaw scene, but that pig head mask is only one scene. Robert Jaffe told Fangoria that the intent was"to do a tongue-in-cheek axe-ploitation film.
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