After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle.
Practical Effects
Real snakes, real roaches, real rats — no budget for fake vermin.
Production
Shot in an actual Louisiana motel, probably without permits.
Director
Jim McCullough Sr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jim McCullough Sr. funded this with profits from his oil pipeline construction company, making it possibly the only slasher financed by fossil fuels.
Shot in 1981 but shelved until '83, it missed the slasher boom peak and bombed — now a VHS collector's holy grail.
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