Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)

95 min · Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film

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Directors

Jim McCullough Sr.

Cast

Anna Chappell, Jill King, Amy Hill, Will Mitchel, Virginia Loridans, Marian Jones, Major Brock, Bill Thurman, Gregg Brazzel, James Bradford

The story

In rural Louisiana in 1981, Evelyn, who has recently been released from a psychiatric institution, finds her daughter Lorie practicing witchcraft in their basement. This causes her to have a mental breakdown, and she stabs Lorie to death. She convinces the authorities that she had nothing to do with her daughter's death, though suspicion looms over her.

Catalogue themes and tags

Berge, Burst of Violence, Ermordung, Gewalt, Insanity, Irrsinn, Kind zu Tode trampeln, Madhouse, Madness, Motel, Murder in the Hotel, Murder of a Girl, Murderer, Series of Murders, Victim of Murder, Visions, accidental kill, psychophat

Genres

Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film

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