This is truly the worst movie ever made. Walter should never act, direct or write ever again. I think he edited the movie as well. He should never do that again either. Nothing made sense. Not one thing. I genuinely don't think Walter has ever heard humans speak to each other before. The dubbing was absolutely atrocious. It was way off. Sometimes a cut to the next "scene" would happen while the dubbing from the previous scene was still finishing. I hope to God that no one was paid for this monstrosity and they did it as a favor to Walter because he "always wanted to make a movie." Well, you made it Walt. Please don't ever do it again.
7 Reviews
Can't tell if this is a comedy or not.
kbarnhart-4844629 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Can't tell if this is a comedy or not, I don't write that to be mean, but this "film" so hilariously awful i found myself asking myself if it was intentional.
The film plods along at a snails pace, as does the exchange of stiff/moronic dialog which I'm convinced everyone is on lithium/lexipro. We are entertained by long pointless driving scenes and country music.(really lame covers of Marshall Tucker and Willie Nelson included). The needle drop cues are terrible, and have nothing to do with the scenes.
Our leading lady (sorry if the reads cruel, I don't wish to be unfair, but hey, you put it out there so I'm gonna' comment.) is Dawna Lee Heising, who has also starred in "Horndogs Beach Party", essentially playing the same role.
Ms Heising has had numerous "procedures" to face and body, to what purpose is unclear: help in getting roles, excess resources, afraid of aging, self-loathing issues, or the producers/casting wanted a cyborg for the lead, in that latter event, they hit the nail on the head. She has a shower scene, but not only does she not want to see her own nipples, it looks as if they were taped. (That's as close as you get to nudity in the entire film).
The film in general has tads of Psycho in it.( A book that is titled " Human Taxidermy" by Norman Bates on the hotel counter, and a ghost mom, and of course a stabbing scene in the shower) But it also has sudden scenes of dancing (the same reggae song appears twice in the movie, once in a car, and the other in a hotel room without any visible signs of a boom box or the ilk. Two pretty girls spontaneously dancing to reggae in conservative lingerie for no reason.
Also, 2- totally different characters in different times in the film order a "burger, medium, with lettuce only and a beer" A couple of people get stabbed for reasons that weren't entirely apparent. (I guess that's the "Paradise" part) The film is supposed to take place in 2022, but there's no technology, I mean seriously, 3 girls in a bar without a cellphone? Not a computer screen anywhere.
I never understood the plot of the film if there actually IS one, from my vantage it only seemed to serve to make me laugh and shake my head how someone got funding and distribution.
Then there's the ending credits with visual portrayals of everyone in the film, which takes FOREVER, (just like the intro).
The film plods along at a snails pace, as does the exchange of stiff/moronic dialog which I'm convinced everyone is on lithium/lexipro. We are entertained by long pointless driving scenes and country music.(really lame covers of Marshall Tucker and Willie Nelson included). The needle drop cues are terrible, and have nothing to do with the scenes.
Our leading lady (sorry if the reads cruel, I don't wish to be unfair, but hey, you put it out there so I'm gonna' comment.) is Dawna Lee Heising, who has also starred in "Horndogs Beach Party", essentially playing the same role.
Ms Heising has had numerous "procedures" to face and body, to what purpose is unclear: help in getting roles, excess resources, afraid of aging, self-loathing issues, or the producers/casting wanted a cyborg for the lead, in that latter event, they hit the nail on the head. She has a shower scene, but not only does she not want to see her own nipples, it looks as if they were taped. (That's as close as you get to nudity in the entire film).
The film in general has tads of Psycho in it.( A book that is titled " Human Taxidermy" by Norman Bates on the hotel counter, and a ghost mom, and of course a stabbing scene in the shower) But it also has sudden scenes of dancing (the same reggae song appears twice in the movie, once in a car, and the other in a hotel room without any visible signs of a boom box or the ilk. Two pretty girls spontaneously dancing to reggae in conservative lingerie for no reason.
Also, 2- totally different characters in different times in the film order a "burger, medium, with lettuce only and a beer" A couple of people get stabbed for reasons that weren't entirely apparent. (I guess that's the "Paradise" part) The film is supposed to take place in 2022, but there's no technology, I mean seriously, 3 girls in a bar without a cellphone? Not a computer screen anywhere.
I never understood the plot of the film if there actually IS one, from my vantage it only seemed to serve to make me laugh and shake my head how someone got funding and distribution.
Then there's the ending credits with visual portrayals of everyone in the film, which takes FOREVER, (just like the intro).
Not the sleeper I'd hoped for
lotekguy-129 August 2022
Low budget. Derivative plot with a Bates-like motel, among other stock schlock elements. Cheesy dialog. Cast of oddballs, showing little emotional connection with their characters or lines. Direction that makes everything move too slowly, while being more stilted than stop-action photography. All the elements for a potential cult classic, but adding up to a waste of their time, and yours.
The producers needed to make choices they eschewed. Camp it up more for a comedy, or ramp up the nudity and gore for a visceral experience. Or both. They did neither, leaving us with an amateurish production that should satisfy no more than a mere few among those who give this a shot. Too many punches pulled in the moments that could have titillated (at least on the streaming version I watched. If there's a sexier or gorier print that survived someone's prudish tampering, I wish I'd had access to that original instead of this limp remainder.)
Better guilty-pleasure flicks abound. Don't get sucked in by the lurid packaging of this one.
The producers needed to make choices they eschewed. Camp it up more for a comedy, or ramp up the nudity and gore for a visceral experience. Or both. They did neither, leaving us with an amateurish production that should satisfy no more than a mere few among those who give this a shot. Too many punches pulled in the moments that could have titillated (at least on the streaming version I watched. If there's a sexier or gorier print that survived someone's prudish tampering, I wish I'd had access to that original instead of this limp remainder.)
Better guilty-pleasure flicks abound. Don't get sucked in by the lurid packaging of this one.
A film seemingly without purpose...
Aaron137512 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I am sure this movie makes sense to someone out there...perhaps the writer, the director (who may have written it) the cast even (who includes the director). Alas, it seemed pretty pointless to me. I am guessing they are trying the David Lynch approach or something, but the only true strangeness going on is the very uncanny look of the main actress and Mel Novak. Other than that, it seems to be a movie out of order, with no ending and no reason for being.
The story, well this is going to be hard, seems to almost be nonexistent for the most part. A woman is on the road, trying to get away from her abusive husband, beyond that it is very incoherent. Two hitchhikers are picked up, one strange and one very strange. Both drive with the woman fleeing her husband for a matter of a few minutes before the woman announces she is tired and drops them off. Not sure why she picked up the second one as she had already declared this. She finds the Paradise Hotel, which considering it is the title of the film really does not stand out. Mel Novak as the person running the desk does as the poor man looks greenish, I am thinking his liver may be going out. Woman goes to diner, gets hit on, takes a long shower, stabs girl that was going to stab her I think, things happen before the movie ends with no resolution to anything and nothing really clever to say...
The actors seem very amateur for the most part. Mel Novak I have seen in a few films, you cannot even recognize him from his younger days and he sounds different too. Despite looking ill though, he seems to be chugging along. The only other person I recognize is the lead who appeared in Apex Predators along with Novak, and she looks a bit strange too, but probably due to extensive plastic surgery.
So, I cannot really recommend this film to anyone looking for something suspenseful as this film is not. Looking for a good horror? Well, this one is not that either. Looking for a bad horror? Not sure it can even be classified as a horror, or a thriller or even a parody. However, you may want to watch it out of some morbid curiosity to see just how strange this film is and wonder if there was any meaning behind any of it other than maybe to pass the people who made it days away.
The story, well this is going to be hard, seems to almost be nonexistent for the most part. A woman is on the road, trying to get away from her abusive husband, beyond that it is very incoherent. Two hitchhikers are picked up, one strange and one very strange. Both drive with the woman fleeing her husband for a matter of a few minutes before the woman announces she is tired and drops them off. Not sure why she picked up the second one as she had already declared this. She finds the Paradise Hotel, which considering it is the title of the film really does not stand out. Mel Novak as the person running the desk does as the poor man looks greenish, I am thinking his liver may be going out. Woman goes to diner, gets hit on, takes a long shower, stabs girl that was going to stab her I think, things happen before the movie ends with no resolution to anything and nothing really clever to say...
The actors seem very amateur for the most part. Mel Novak I have seen in a few films, you cannot even recognize him from his younger days and he sounds different too. Despite looking ill though, he seems to be chugging along. The only other person I recognize is the lead who appeared in Apex Predators along with Novak, and she looks a bit strange too, but probably due to extensive plastic surgery.
So, I cannot really recommend this film to anyone looking for something suspenseful as this film is not. Looking for a good horror? Well, this one is not that either. Looking for a bad horror? Not sure it can even be classified as a horror, or a thriller or even a parody. However, you may want to watch it out of some morbid curiosity to see just how strange this film is and wonder if there was any meaning behind any of it other than maybe to pass the people who made it days away.
Possibly the worst excuse for a movie I've ever seen
shanfan_1427 November 2023
The opening, showing some girl whom, I assume, was supposed to be enticing and the "Spheric" logo began the groans of disbelief even before we recognized that this had no script and no actors worthy of the designation. Whose idea was it to excuse this mess in the name of a cautionary tale about spousal abuse? Most of what happened was unclear, made no sense and had repetitious and absurd visuals. There was a shot of a couch pillow before anyone sat down. There was an exciting fence along the roadside which received a respectable amount of film time, and the face of one of the girls--a static shot staring into the camera with, perhaps, the intent of communicating something--used at least three times. The fence shows up again later when nothing else seems to be going on. Everyone's line deliveries were truly awful, mumbled, over-dramatized as well as incomprehensible. No idea who was whom or what was what. For a brief moment, I, too, wondered if it was supposed to be a comedy. There were creepy, superfluous characters who just hung around the coffee shop, looking like they had rolled out of a mental hospital. The ongoing fascination seemed to be with the terrible lip fillers of the principal character and the entirely botched plastic surgery of the taxidermy aficionado. The music and "dancing" were equally terrible , made no sense, as with the attitude, appearance and demise of one of the girls. All this may, in fact, have constituted the plot of this: complete incoherence. We have watched hundreds of Rifftrax and MST disasters, but at the interminable end credits of this waste of time, we all agreed it might just have qualified as the absolute worst piece of dreck we had ever watched. Categorizing it as a thriller must have been a desperate attempt to explain the inexplicable. Nothing thrilling by any stretch of the imagination--which didn't require much stretching.
FILMIC GENIUS
tenjor12 April 2022
I had the opportunity to do press for this film and I will never regret to say that it was an amazing experience, I congratulate Angel Princess on producing a great story.
And her performance in it, is 10/10, from now on she has become one of my crush in the seventh art, I hope to buy you a beer later, to discuss more of this film, because it is a jewel.
Dawna Lee Heisig's performance is impeccable, the queen never disappoints.
And Mel "Coolio" Novak is masterful and excellent acting by Llenelle Gibson, Vera R. Taylor, Juliana Rose, Jason Wilburn, Catherine Lydon and Walter Hochbrueckner.
And her performance in it, is 10/10, from now on she has become one of my crush in the seventh art, I hope to buy you a beer later, to discuss more of this film, because it is a jewel.
Dawna Lee Heisig's performance is impeccable, the queen never disappoints.
And Mel "Coolio" Novak is masterful and excellent acting by Llenelle Gibson, Vera R. Taylor, Juliana Rose, Jason Wilburn, Catherine Lydon and Walter Hochbrueckner.
Weird fun
BandSAboutMovies21 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Walter Hochbrueckner directed, wrote and appears in this film which tells the story of Nikki Travis (Dawna Lee Heising), who has left her abusive husband Eric (Hochbrueckner) and while she doesn't follow the lyrics of Tom Waits ("gonna drive all night / Take some speed") as she goes out west, she sure finds plenty of weirdness.
She soon meets Misty (Llenelle Gibson) and Crystal (Angel Princess), two other women who are running from something too. Their three paths converge at a town called Paradise and Jackie's (Vera R. Taylor) diner.
Paradise is a misnomer, as masked killers roam the streets, salarymen disappear regularly, Raymond Taylor (Mel Novak) seems to have the taxidermy skills and mommy issues of another hotel owner we know and fear and Nikki's ex is still hunting for her, demanding the money she stole from him.
There are moments in this film that seem like they're repeating like you're stuck in a dream where time moves like heavy mercury beneath the waves, as you attempt to figure out why everyone has found this town, who left that knife just sitting out and why no one thinks it's al that strange that Nikki wants to be known as Joan Crawford now. Also: a perfect amount of cheetah print.
The Paradise Motel is a quirky movie that succeeds because of its oddball nature. It's not trying to be weird; it just is naturally. And isn't that the best?
She soon meets Misty (Llenelle Gibson) and Crystal (Angel Princess), two other women who are running from something too. Their three paths converge at a town called Paradise and Jackie's (Vera R. Taylor) diner.
Paradise is a misnomer, as masked killers roam the streets, salarymen disappear regularly, Raymond Taylor (Mel Novak) seems to have the taxidermy skills and mommy issues of another hotel owner we know and fear and Nikki's ex is still hunting for her, demanding the money she stole from him.
There are moments in this film that seem like they're repeating like you're stuck in a dream where time moves like heavy mercury beneath the waves, as you attempt to figure out why everyone has found this town, who left that knife just sitting out and why no one thinks it's al that strange that Nikki wants to be known as Joan Crawford now. Also: a perfect amount of cheetah print.
The Paradise Motel is a quirky movie that succeeds because of its oddball nature. It's not trying to be weird; it just is naturally. And isn't that the best?
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