Part of the Sleazemania series, Motel Confidential offers a peek at the events that transpire in a slummy city motel run by a comedy Italian and his son. If you've ever seen Surburban Confidential, then you'll know what to expect... same old black-and-white soft-core antics but with worse double-entendres. I suggest this only to those interested in ancient sleaze... if you like such programmes as Exploitica, then this is a film that you will enjoy...
3 Reviews
Semi-racy and unspeakably tedious!
jonathan-trapp13 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
No matter how much you might enjoy retro-trash movies, this sleaze-fest will disappoint you. Although it's completely crammed with nudity (primarily busty females and greasy hideous men) it's completely repetitive; within fifteen minutes you're starting to fall asleep, within half an hour, you're praying *somehow* it will actually develop something resembling a plot, and by the end you're just plain irritated at yourself for bothering to finish it at all! As I mentioned, there is NO plot, no nothing, just a sequence of endless vignettes of different couples checking in to the Quickie Motel (yes, that's the level of humor the film achieves), then undressing and flopping around gasping and moaning (the acting is so bad they can't even fake enjoying their sexual encounters), one couple after the next. The retro part consists of the female's monstrously huge *wigs*, several of which are at least 4' high... The duos include an 80-year old executive and his young biracial secretary, whose figure rivals Pam Grier's, but whose wig makes Grier's afro look like a crew cut... then a middle-aged suburban nymphomaniac who picks up a Sailor and forces him to repeatedly have sex until he's too exhausted to escape... then an old bag (Motel Manager says to Bellboy: "Just take this old bag to the room," in which she promptly exclaims "EXCUSE ME??!" to which he replies "Oh, I meant your suitcase") who dallys with Chi-Chi, the studly bellboy... then, a newly married couple who forgot to bring condoms and are thus delayed while the husband goes to buy some and then can't remember his way back to the motel... then a would-be swinging Casanova's who picks up a sexy lady and brings her back only to discover she's really a man ("She's a f*g in drag!")... then a slouchy housewife who beds down with a truck driver only to be interrupted by her husband, who it turns out is running a game on the other guy to get his money... then a couple intro some lightweight S&M (we have to watch the guy spanking his woman's bare buttocks close-up for at least twenty minutes... and about four other couples I can't remember. For an early soft-core sex flick, this movie makes sex seem absolutely the most tedious and boring thing on earth!!! (Probably *not* their intention.) There could've been humor, there could've been fun, but all we get is a series of, well, I've already gone on enough. This *might* have been shocking to moral majority folks in 1966, but if you're looking for titillation, go to your local zoo, or save yourself about an hour and twenty five minutes and just buy yourself a copy of Playboy, or whatever porno suits your pleasure. This is definitely *not* entertainment...
Poor
Michael_Elliott16 June 2008
Motel Confidential (1967)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Another film in the "confidential" series, which Stephens had his name on throughout the 1960s. This time out we see various people walk into a rundown motel just to have sex. We get a newlywed couple, a boss and his secreter, a couple falling apart, a Romeo who accidentally picks up a man in drag and various others. This film here runs 84-minutes, which is way too long for what the film is going for. There are many stories being told here but in the end the only thing they're trying to do is show nudity but after a while this gets very slow and boring. The screenplay tries to have fun with the stories but very few of them turn out very well. The comedy behind the newlywed couple works to a certain point as the husband must go out to buy condoms but soon forgets where his motel is. The man in drag sequence is pretty poor as there are countless spaces where the comedy should have been a homerun but it never works. Those sensitive to how homosexuals are talked about will also find this sequence pretty offensive. If it's nudity you're after then you'll find a lot here but there are much better sexploitation films to see.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Another film in the "confidential" series, which Stephens had his name on throughout the 1960s. This time out we see various people walk into a rundown motel just to have sex. We get a newlywed couple, a boss and his secreter, a couple falling apart, a Romeo who accidentally picks up a man in drag and various others. This film here runs 84-minutes, which is way too long for what the film is going for. There are many stories being told here but in the end the only thing they're trying to do is show nudity but after a while this gets very slow and boring. The screenplay tries to have fun with the stories but very few of them turn out very well. The comedy behind the newlywed couple works to a certain point as the husband must go out to buy condoms but soon forgets where his motel is. The man in drag sequence is pretty poor as there are countless spaces where the comedy should have been a homerun but it never works. Those sensitive to how homosexuals are talked about will also find this sequence pretty offensive. If it's nudity you're after then you'll find a lot here but there are much better sexploitation films to see.
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