MOTEL HELL (vhs) Rory Calhoun, horror and 50 similar items

Pre-viewed for quality and played great on my Fisher vcr. Box is faded on both sides and has normal shelf wear around some of the edges. Cast credits are printed on the inside gatefold cover and the nice and clean cassette rests in a vacuform. Spine label and factory security sticker are intact assuring you of first generation quality. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats and no longer being produced. MOTEL HELLo (the second "O" on the neon sign is shorting out) is a ramshackle place that seems to be located in the same redneck backwoods where Russ Meyer's characters all live. It is operated by friendly Farmer Vincent (Rory Calhoun) and his sister (Nancy Parsons). The district is patrolled, none too skillfully, by a relative (Paul Linke), who is the sheriff, but sees nothing wrong with burying the victims of a motorcycle crash without benefeit of an investigation or autopsy. That's just as well, because Farmer Vincent's specialty is burying people. He just doesn't wait until their dead. He waylays unsuspecting travelers, knocks them unconscious, severes their vocal cords, "plants" them up to their necks, fattens them up through funnel feeders, waits for muscle atrophy to make tender, and then pulls them out like giant carrots with a tractor. He then slaughters them in his smokehouse, mixes the meat with pork and sells them as sausage at his roadside stand. His cheerful motto: "It takes all kinds of critters... to make Farmer Vincent's fritters." All right now, of course this is disgusting. But hold on just a dagbone minute! What MOTEL HELL brings to this genre is the refreshing sound of laughter and you can't satirize this material without presenting the subject matter. Not nearly as gruesome as the films it satirizes, and it finds the right stylistic note for its central characters, who are simple, cheerful, smiling, earnest, and resourceful cannibals.