Sat 22 Apr 2017
Archived Movie Review: DESIRE AND HELL AT SUNSET MOTEL (1991).
Posted by Steve under Crime Films , Reviews[5] Comments
DESIRE AND HELL AT SUNSET MOTEL. Two Moon Releasing, 1991. Sherilyn Fenn, Whip Hubley, David Hewlett, David Johansen, Kenneth Tobey. Screenwriter-director: Alien Castle.
An unhappily married couple, a toy salesman and his bored wife, check into a 1950s hotel four miles from Disneyland. He hires a friend to spy on his wife; she asks her lover to kill her husband.
This was described somewhere as “comedy noir,” but unless you have a high tolerance for ennui, forget it. It’s arch and snooty, and on a low budget in a cheap motel, that won’t even buy you a vanilla phosphate.
— Reprinted from Nothing Accompliced #4, November 1993.
April 22nd, 2017 at 2:42 am
I’ve said less about a movie, but not often. Nor does it ring a bell of any kind. I have a feeling that it didn’t take more than 15 minutes after writing this review before any traces of it disappeared from my brain, perhaps less.
April 22nd, 2017 at 8:15 am
As far as this film goes, I have the same feeling of… not so much “deja-vu” as “deja-I-saw-it-and-forgot-it-immediately” or maybe “deja-ennui.”
April 22nd, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Here, thanks to YouTube, is a trailer for the film:
It’s actually an ad for the movie on VHS tape. I don’t think it was ever officially released n DVD. The MSRP for the video cassette was $89.98.
April 23rd, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Soft core porn not noir light.
April 23rd, 2017 at 4:54 pm
I probably watched this one on Cinemax. It would have fit right in with the other fare they were showing at the time.