Typical slasher flick about a deranged motel owner (hmm, now which movie does that sound like?). There are a few neat scenes, but otherwise nothing special. I can see why "Mountaintop Motel Massacre" didn't get released for three years after getting filmed, and why it didn't spawn any sequels.For the record, some of the most creative '80s horror flicks came from Italy. Dario Argento's "Phenomena" (aka "Creepers"), Lamberto Bava's "Macabre" and Michele Soavi's "Stage Fright" are examples. The best one from the US was "A Nightmare on Elm Street". As it was, at the age of seven I interpreted "Ghostbusters" as a horror movie (no really, it SCARED THE HELL out of me), and it wasn't until I was nine that I realized that it was a comedy.Anyway, this is no great movie.

You like movies that are so bad, they're good? You know who you are. Borderline ridiculous even better. MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE features amateur acting, terribly cheap special effects and top notch creepy atmosphere. Evelyn(Anna Chappell),after a three year stay at the Arkansas Mental Hospital, runs the Mountaintop Motel just off the highway and deep in the woods. She oversees a series of run-down cabins renting for $7 a night. Evelyn's head is full of evil voices that push her to killing her own daughter and then on a rampage of cabin-to-cabin slaughter. She employs snakes, rats and cockroaches as tension elevators before she sneaks in and uses her deadly blade. I absolutely loved the rainstorm atmosphere. This motel has a hell-of-a check out time...its bloody murder. Jim McCullough Jr. writes and directs. The cast also features: Bill Thurman, Will Mitchel, Virginia Loridans and Gregg Brazzel.

First of all I would like to start this off with an apology to the creators of silent night, deadly night. I made that movie sound like the worst movie ever and in reality mountaintop motel massacre makes it look brilliant. This so far is the worst movie i have ever seen! I watched this movie for 2 reasons, because i have always had a fear of creepy hotels and the cover looked scary. This movie did not make my fear any worse and in fact I am probably less afraid of hotels. This movie is slow and boring and the only reason i watched all of it was to give a review. We didn't even get to know the characters and I for one didn't care what happened to them. They were morons and this was the worst acting ever. I know most of these movies have bad actors but i have honestly seen better and more believable actors in elementary school plays. And what was with the killing scenes? The victims had their heads turned and you couldn't even see what was being done to them until after it was done. I love scary B movies but if you are thinking of adding this to your collection, I hope you don't make the same mistake as i did and ignore the reviews. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Most of these actors would never be in a Hollywood movie, they look and act like authentic back-road types. This helps give the movie a dangerous off road reality that helps keep a sense of danger going during the rather uneventful proceedings. But you don't notice that not much is really going on and then people start getting bumped off and it does earn its massacre title. Could have used more "voices in her head" moments to drive the film into high gear, but it's odd in a good way and there is some clever gore.More ghostly voices, more strangeness and this would go up several points, but has a feel that makes it different from other slasher films of the era. Good make-up effects help. And you never know for sure who will live and who will die, and important thing most films don't ever bother to even try to do.