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2.0 out of 5 stars
It's worth a watch., January 3, 2006
This review is from: Mountaintop Motel Massacre (DVD)
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The atmosphere in this movie is creepy, hazy and wet. The motel looks more like a run-down Camp Crystal Lake, which I am sure is purely intentional with the camp slasher craze of the early 80's. The soundtrack is cheap but adds to the creepy elemnt.
The plot is surely not unique, but but is is well done. Get a bunch of stranded people in one secluded place where the law can't help them and then kill them. The formula that worked with Friday The 13th 5 times.
[the bad]
The acting in this is absolutely HORRENDOUS! The make-up effects aren't much better. The story is good, but we know who the killer is from the first 5minutes of the movie on, which in my opinion took ALOT of suspense out of the movie.
[final thoughts]
I think this movie would have been so much better with a fatter budget, better acting and more of a "whodunit" mystery, but we had neither of that and the movie falls flat even though there is a valiant effort.
The D.V.D. doesn't give us any extras, and we all know that sucks.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mama's getting sick again, January 28, 2004
This review is from: Mountaintop Motel Massacre (DVD)
The tagline for the movie was "Don't disturb Evelyn, she already is." How true that turned out to be. Evelyn is our main character, such a poor little thing she is. Not only is she a widow who runs a motel and has a daughter who practices the black arts, she also happens to be crazy and has been a resident at a mental hospital. In a fit of fury she kills her daughter Lorri. The authorities pass it off as a accident and Evelyn is free to go and manage her motel. But when Evelyn gets some tenants on a stormy night, she starts to crack. This movies is a morbid gem and filled with unease. If you're going to watch the movie, do so at night, by yourself with the lights off. If the whispering voices and bone-chilling music doesn't get to you I don't know what will.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Seventies, very Long, very something..., January 14, 2002
This review is from: Mountaintop Motel Massacre (DVD)
I have mixed feelings after watching this movie. I like it but not as much as other 80's drive-in exploitation. I can't help but feel that it feels like an incomplete movie with a non-ending that implies that the daughter who is killed at the beginning is haunting the motel. The movie feels very inconclusive and from the beggining you never get a good idea of what the hell the daughter is about anyway. Except for maybe that she is obviously practicing witchcraft of some sort. The old woman who does all the killing is just not bizarre enough for my tastes. She should have been a real freak. Her idea of tortuing her guests by putting rats in their rooms is kinda weak. This film is fun but it's not that fun.
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