After all of the modern horror i have been talking about lately, its nice to go back to 1980's sleepaway camp style strangeness. and hey it could be a lot worse, you could wind up hanging out with Mr. Slausen at his tourist trap.
Vincent (Rory Calhoun) and his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) run a rural hotel, but they earn most of their cash operating a food stand that specializes in world-famous sausages. After years of success, however, the duo's upstanding brother, Sheriff Bruce (Paul Linke), eventually discovers the grotesque details of his siblings' booming business: Vincent and Ida are actually plumping up their hotel patrons, killing and dismembering them and then grinding them into frankfurters. oh yeah and dont forget the swingers, horny cops, slidey cars cheat from GTA, bearded punks in there bearded van, and a weird father daughter Stockholm syndrome daddy thing going on with our final(?) girl.
this movie is fun as hell. a lot of movies even still confuse violence with horror, but this movie has a good understanding of the difference between the two. its frightening and tense when it needs to be, but most of the time its pure 80s cheesy comedy that i have always found to be one of my favorite types of movie. the idea of waking up from a car crash to find yourself buried in the dirt from the neck down and your vocal chords slit is a really disturbing idea, but this movies wacky characters and tone keep things from being to dark. the whole movie is a great example of mixing the darker horror beats with the more light hearted character scenes that leads to this being both a cheesy B movie and a great horror movie.
also as a hotel worker myself, hotel horror is always welcome.
10/10
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