Month: October 2022

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Motel Hell’

Jeff Mitchell

“Motel Hell” (1980) – Vincent (Roy Calhoun) and Ida Smith (Nancy Parsons) are a brother and sister team who run a motel in the countryside.  Vincent sports a southern accent of sorts, but Ida’s might be placed somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic.    Anyways, their lodging doesn’t sit off a busy highway, but a winding road with a marsh close by, and the accommodations look low budget.  In fact, the second “O” flickers on the MOTEL HELLO sign, so it reads MOTEL HELL.  For folks who unfortunately attempt to drive by,…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘The Stepfather’

Jeff Mitchell

“The Stepfather” (1987) – Hey, being a stepparent is hard, but in 86 minutes, director Joseph Ruben explains his view: a stepchild’s world is more difficult…because a kid may have to fend for his or her life.  Add an unsuspecting spouse to the list too! Seventeen years before Terry O’Quinn starred in “Lost” (2004 – 2010), he infamously played Jerry Blake, a husband to Susan (Shelley Hack) and a stepdad to Stephanie (Jill Schoelen).  This teenager never warmed up to Jerry – over the course of a year – despite…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Thirst’

Jeff Mitchell

“Thirst” (2009) – Park Chan-wook (“Old Boy” (2003), “The Handmaiden” (2016)) spins the “classic” tale of…Priest contracts an incurable disease, Priest becomes a vampire, Priest meets Girl in a proudly eccentric horror film set in Seoul.  Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) is a thoughtful, earnest man of the cloth, and he regularly reaches out to help humanity, including attempting to discover a cure for the Emmanuel Virus, but he becomes infected and – out of the blue – becomes a vampire.  Since his new vampire skills suppress the virus, the public reveres…