Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel ( Desire & Hell at Sunset Motel )

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Desire & Hell at Sunset Motel
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alien Castle

Written By:
Alien Castle

Actors:
Sherilyn Fenn ..... Bridey
Whip Hubley ..... Chester
David Hewlett ..... Deadpan
David Johansen ..... Auggie
Kenneth Tobey ..... Captain Holiday
Paul Bartel ..... The Manager
Parker Whitman ..... The Boss
Shannon Sturges ..... Louella
Eric Welch ..... Eddie
Larry Spinak ..... Waiter
Chuck Swain ..... Hula Hoop Boy
Holly Dorff ..... Additional Voices (voice) (as Holly Ryan)
Ruth Britt ..... Additional Voices (voice)
Bryan Scott ..... Additional Voices (voice)
Gary Schwartz ..... Additional Voices (voice)

Synopsis:

An unfunny comedy that ribs film noir conventions, Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel is set at a second-rate motel in 1950s Anaheim that is run by a fussy and nosy manager (Paul Bartel, invoking the ghost of Billy De Wolfe). Checking into the hotel is toy salesman Chester DeSoto (Whip Hubley) and his sultry wife Bridey (Sherilyn Fenn), who likes to take midnight swims in the motel swimming pool in sexy black negligees. She seduces local lady-killer Augie March (David Johansen), who happens to be blackmailing her husband concerning his past Communist Party associations. While Bridey is giving the once-over to Augie, Chester is busy himself -- hiring a screwball private detective by the name of Deadpan Winchester (David Hewlett) to spy on his wife. With the hotel manager peeking behind the curtains, one person turns up dead, and those left attempt to link Deadpan Winchester to the murder.

Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.

Despite all the luxuries available in sunny, sparkling Los Angeles, some things about human nature never change: lies, deception, adultery, blackmail and murder. At the swanky Sunset Hotel, Chester de Soto and his beautiful wife bicker as they check into separate rooms. But when Chester disappears everyone suspects his wife in this complex and stylish tale of lust, love, deception and murder!

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