****SPOILERS**** Watching Farmer Vincent, Rory Calhoun, when he's not at work at the meat shed and ambushing people on the roads for future meat-processing you get the impression of a sweet and kindly old man. A person who's only interest in life is to provide the best meats possible, totally free of any chemical additives, at very affordable prices to an adoring and growing public. Who come from miles around to buy his famous meat products.
But behind that benign exterior is a criminal and murderous interior of a deluded and disturbed person. Who together with his gluttonous sister Ida ,Nancy Persons, Farmer Vincent would ambush motorists on the roads around his farm and motel and plant them into the ground. With their vocal cords cut, to keep them quiet, and heads sticking out to be force-feed and later turned into Farmer Vincent's famous meats, meats that people would die for. Farmer Vincent does all this for his many adoring eager and growing costumers from all over the country. But like all criminals who always cover their tracks Farmer Vincent makes a fatal mistake one night when he trips and captures a couple riding on a motorbike along the road outside his farm. Vincent leaves one of the bikers Terry, Nina Axelrod, alive and instead of having Terry turned into breakfast links he falls head over heels for her and it's that fatal miscalculation on his part that led to his downfall.
Masking his crimes with religious favor in thinking that he's saving the human race from starvation. By providing it with a new source of nourishment Farmer Vincent happily mixes the humans with cows and hogs in his food processing to get the right balance of taste and nutrition that drives people, who buy his meat products, wild. But with him getting involved with Terry brought attention to his underground criminal operation that would expose him to the police as the mad man that he is. Vincent's kid brother Bruce, Paul Linke, also took a serious liking toward Terry and was hurt and outraged when he saw that Terry left him for his old and crazy brother; and Bruce just happens to be the towns Sheriff.
"Motel Hell" is a film about murder and cannibalism with a lot of black comedy mixed in. Even though at times it's very funny it never lets you forget that the human mind when it snaps, like in the case of Farmer Vincent, can be more dangerous then any lethal weapon.
The movie ends With the revolt of Farmer Vincent's future hot dogs and hamburgers who broke out of his "secret garden" where he had them buried. As well as an incredible chainsaw battle between Vincent and his kid brother Bruce. With Bruce coming to the rescue of Terry before she's cut into cold-cuts by a meat slicing machine.
Farmer Vincent is exposed as a fraud as well as a murder in his criminal enterprise of illegal food-processing when he finally let the truth out for the whole world to hear. The shocking truth that his meat products weren't anywhere as wholesome and nutritious as he and his advertisements for them claimed that they were. As he so painfully admitted what he felt to be was the biggest and most inexcusable crime ,in his sick and disturbed mind, that he ever committed: "I Used Preservatives"!.
But behind that benign exterior is a criminal and murderous interior of a deluded and disturbed person. Who together with his gluttonous sister Ida ,Nancy Persons, Farmer Vincent would ambush motorists on the roads around his farm and motel and plant them into the ground. With their vocal cords cut, to keep them quiet, and heads sticking out to be force-feed and later turned into Farmer Vincent's famous meats, meats that people would die for. Farmer Vincent does all this for his many adoring eager and growing costumers from all over the country. But like all criminals who always cover their tracks Farmer Vincent makes a fatal mistake one night when he trips and captures a couple riding on a motorbike along the road outside his farm. Vincent leaves one of the bikers Terry, Nina Axelrod, alive and instead of having Terry turned into breakfast links he falls head over heels for her and it's that fatal miscalculation on his part that led to his downfall.
Masking his crimes with religious favor in thinking that he's saving the human race from starvation. By providing it with a new source of nourishment Farmer Vincent happily mixes the humans with cows and hogs in his food processing to get the right balance of taste and nutrition that drives people, who buy his meat products, wild. But with him getting involved with Terry brought attention to his underground criminal operation that would expose him to the police as the mad man that he is. Vincent's kid brother Bruce, Paul Linke, also took a serious liking toward Terry and was hurt and outraged when he saw that Terry left him for his old and crazy brother; and Bruce just happens to be the towns Sheriff.
"Motel Hell" is a film about murder and cannibalism with a lot of black comedy mixed in. Even though at times it's very funny it never lets you forget that the human mind when it snaps, like in the case of Farmer Vincent, can be more dangerous then any lethal weapon.
The movie ends With the revolt of Farmer Vincent's future hot dogs and hamburgers who broke out of his "secret garden" where he had them buried. As well as an incredible chainsaw battle between Vincent and his kid brother Bruce. With Bruce coming to the rescue of Terry before she's cut into cold-cuts by a meat slicing machine.
Farmer Vincent is exposed as a fraud as well as a murder in his criminal enterprise of illegal food-processing when he finally let the truth out for the whole world to hear. The shocking truth that his meat products weren't anywhere as wholesome and nutritious as he and his advertisements for them claimed that they were. As he so painfully admitted what he felt to be was the biggest and most inexcusable crime ,in his sick and disturbed mind, that he ever committed: "I Used Preservatives"!.