# Name this "horror" movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238 "2004-07-15T11:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/1 "2004-07-15T11:10:58Z")
I had a very brief memory today of this movie from the late 1970’s,. perhaps early 80’s. All I can remember about the plot is some people were kidnapping the townsfolk and then chopping them up and selling the meat (or perhaps they were just eating them, I can’t remember) In the movie we learn the townsfolk were buring up to their heads in “the garden” to be fattened up -or some other nonsense. Their mouths were taped shut and a bag was put over their heads. I remember one silly scene where they show “the garden” and it is a row of bags moving around. The movie in all was pretty crappy low-grade horror. I want to figure out what it was so I can see it again and giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/2 "2004-07-15T11:12:28Z")
“the townsfolk were buring” Huh?? That should say “the townsfolk were buried” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/3 "2004-07-15T11:39:42Z")
**Motel Hell** from 1980: > **[Motel Hell (1980) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081184/)** > > Motel Hell: Directed by Kevin Connor. With Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod. A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous... The Motel’s sign originally read “Motel Hello”, but the “o” burned out. An idea Tim Burton stole for **Batman Returns**. I never saw this movie, but the buried-up-to-their-necks townspeople wer on the movie ad. (And, as you can see, the video cover). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/4 "2004-07-15T16:44:53Z")
It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters! I think it was inspired by both SWEENY TODD & Ed Gein, perhaps with a nod to Fritz Haarmaan also. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/5 "2004-07-15T17:33:20Z")
A pre “Cheers” John Ratzenberger was one of the human “plants”. Just caught it again the other night on TMC. Such a fun odd movie. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/6 "2004-07-16T11:20:30Z")
Motel Hell! That’s it. Thanks Cal. \*now, if I can get this clunker on DVD I’ll be set for “MST3K - the home game” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/7 "2004-07-16T11:36:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*now, if I can get this clunker on DVD I’ll be set for “MST3K - the home game” I’ve been having The CalMeacham Bad Film Festival – sarcastic comments and all – every year since the mid-eighties, well before MST3K hit cable. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/8 "2004-07-16T12:15:16Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > A pre “Cheers” John Ratzenberger was one of the human “plants”. And it stars that guy. You know the one. The guy who’s always standing and walking. Ummm… Rory Calhoun… that’s it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThatDuckIsEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@ThatDuckIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatDuckIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/9 "2004-07-16T15:51:54Z")
I used to have a VHS copy of this. It’s a classic. Think I wore it out though. Come on DVD! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/10 "2004-07-16T15:59:02Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Motel Hell! That’s it. Thanks Cal. > > \*now, if I can get this clunker on DVD I’ll be set for “MST3K - the home game” It is on DVD as a double feature with Deranged. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/11 "2004-07-16T16:06:01Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > It is on DVD as a double feature with Deranged. Was just about to say that. Looked it up and it is available on Netflix. Sounds like a good old fashioned fun night at the movies…lol! ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/12 "2004-07-17T07:58:48Z")
Yup, [here is the DVD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068TPD/qid=1090051035/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-2008753-4897722?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846),… In widescreen format no less. _drools_ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-horror-movie/255238/13 "2004-07-17T11:04:09Z")
DERANGED was great except that the end was totally inconsistent with both the movie & the facts of the case (it was another “based on Gein” & closer to the facts than PSYCHO or TEXAS CHAINSAW). I loved the portly “Charles Martin Smith-esque” narrator explaining things as he sat on the end of Dead Mom’s bed (assuming I recall correctly _L_)