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It was hard to figure out where to begin with this review. I wasn't sure whether I should talk about the bad acting first or perhaps the camera angles and bad lighting. I think I'll start with the confusing storyline. I'm still not positive why things happened the way that they did. Why did Angela want a brother so bad when she already had one? Why was Megan going to be Angela's new mommy when her baby was "going to be" Angela's brother's child? The characters did what they did because it made the plot move forward, for no other reason.

The camera angles quite frankly sucked. I didn't know what was going on half the time. It was much too dark and, combined with the confusing storyline, I feel like I didn't catch most of the movie. The acting? There were maybe two of them who acted decently. I feel like somebody picked up a bad student film and accidentally released it instead of a movie that they meant to release. It looked like a parody. I'm still wondering if it was. The characters were EXTRAORDINARILY unlikeable and they had no connection. I was cheering when they died one by one and they deserved it for their stupidity. Their dirty little secrets were stupid and even the main plot was fairly predictable. Why were they even out there anyway? They obviously hated each other.

There were maybe a couple creepy scenes but the whole thing was mostly just annoying, not scary at all. I'd like to think of something that this movie had going for it but it didn't. Perhaps, in the beginning, they had some good ideas but they tried to combine too many and it turned out very badly. Save your money, even if it's just a dollar from Redbox. Save your time. I would give this zero stars if I could.

I got this movie out of redbox and I've never heard of it so i kinda got what i deserve..

I came home and read a couple reviews ,,obviously written by people involved in the film because anyone who would recommend another human being the torture of sitting threw this 2 hour long piece of crap is either doing it for money or is just plain cruel..either way let me save you some torment ..cut you're losses and find something else ...this movie really sucks..you killed my baby ...im sorry well make a new ..its just gonna take a little longer...what a joke..lionsgate should be ashamed of themselves..i don't trust them anymore..

The film has a rather smart plot, but poor execution. The beginning of the film shows us little Angela (Rileigh Chalmers) getting hit by a truck some years ago. A group of young adults are forced to stay at the abandoned motel where her parents lived and the incident took place. There isn't much character build up prior to them getting to this point.

The motel, as you may have guessed, is haunted and has its secrets as do the young adults. The film reminded me of "Seven Deadly Sins" where guests succumb to their own device based on their sin. In this film the secret possessed by each character is reflective of an aspect of the live of the demised owners, which in turn plays a role in their fate. Yes, very clever indeed except in spite of that, the film just doesn't grab you. The production misses on the mediocre acting, bad direction, and lack of clever dialouge.

The film does teach us lessons in life such as: Don't play in the middle of the road or don't take pills out of a dirty commode. Not a keeper, and should be a long way down on any rental list. I overrated the film due to the smartness of the plot.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex. No nudity. Chalie Howes in panties.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

"No Tell Motel" is a classic horror movie about young teens getting stranded on the beaten path. Director Brett Donowho takes the mix of careless teens that are out for adventure, and places them in a haunted abandoned motel. Unsuspecting to them at first, they are soon plagued by the ghosts that haunt the motel.

Donowho creates depth in each character by giving some back story through the movie. From an ex-jock troubled with a drug addiction to a girl hiding her newly found pregnancy from her lover. I had initially believed that this was only to create "likeability" or a way to connect to the characters, but the back story becomes the baseline of the "twist" that was later revealed in the movie.

The film is set in modern times and of course as with any horror movie, implicitly cellphone reception was no where to be found. This is where this movie had its faults. In some parts of the movie, you have read the subtle hints. The acting also seemed very cut and dry. The dialog was very laid back and some parts even seem impromptu. At certain points of the movie I found myself saying, "Wait, where's the emotion? Didn't their friend just die?" The director also fails in my book by just rushing from scene to scene. From teen to teen, it seemed like a crash course to get them out of the way.

"No Tell Motel" lacks in acting and development of the characters. The "scream factor" is there with its dark and confined situations. At certain points of the movie, I did pull towards the edge of my couch, but not too often. The camera angels where pretty straight forward and dead on to the actors. There where no noticeable signature shots that jumped out such as low angels, close-ups, and panning. And the music and ambiance really just relied on the silent creeks and crashes that where meant to startle the viewer. The story overall is just a regurgitation of a horror baseline with a different twist. This movie almost reminded me of a hybrid of the movie Wrong Turn.

This movie is a pretty straightforward horror flick but does tell a pretty good story about a dysfunctional family of ghosts.

Once the thing stops rolling you have ample opportunity to be able to pick apart a couple of plot holes but there are not as many as one might think.

Firstly, the acting in this movie was actually better than I anticipated which was refreshing for a change. Usually horror flicks with teenage actors or actors purporting to be teenagers tends to be over the top, but that was not the case and the lead actress in this movie improved as the movie progressed. Although some of the others died early in the movie, they were credible and in a way I wish they had a little more screen time. They managed to do what I think good actors in this genre strive for; that is they made us feel for them when they got killed.

The writing was pretty strong for this and did manage to tie the whole thing together by the end with a couple of pretty interesting plot twists although I'm pretty sure that most people will figure out a few of them before they are revealed.

Overall, this is an entertaining movie but it won't make you jump out of your skin nor will it have you sleeping with the lights on. I honestly think it deserves at least a solid 6 but to try and elevate it a little, I'm giving it an 8 because it surely doesn't deserve as low a rating as 3.5.

Finally, in other words, if you like this particular type of movie, I recommend you watch it and enjoy because it will be worth your time.

I knew this movie was going in the wrong direction when the driver of the motorhome takes the shortcut and then, for absolutely no reason, goes way too fast until...... yes, the motorhome crashes and the five young occupants have to take shelter in the broken down motel. I'm sorry folks, but believe it or not it just goes downhill from there. There is nothing new here, nor is there anything to make note of in this movie. It is just there. It is a movie. That is all I can say. So, if your only criteria for entertainment for the evening is that it be a movie, then this one qualifies! Otherwise, you can go to the dairy and see how milk is made and have a much better time.

Wow, what can I say about 'No Tell Motel' apart from the fact it is absolutely awful. It follows a group of teenagers on a road trip (unoriginal) who somehow manage to flip their RV over through just having a simple argument. They conveniently stop by an abandoned motel they then find out later is haunted.

I have numerous problems with this film, first and foremost, the horrific acting. None of it was believable, the arguments looked fake and down right cheesy. The most notorious one being when the blonde girl Megan Walsh says 'it's settled, we're staying' at this point,I just laughed because it sounded utterly ridiculous. Nothing was ever properly explained and random things just seemed to be thrown in and we never actually find out what significance they have to the narrative, if they have any at all. One example of this would be when the 'boyfriend' i'm guessing? since its never actually solidified he is, takes some sort of drug that we are never informed on what it is so we are left wondering what the hell he's been taking and he randomly pulls a gun out of no where. where exactly did he get that from? we don't know, and we never find out!

the narrative was extremely badly written, nothing made sense and nothing had any relevance. It takes all the expected horror movie traits and makes them worse than they could possibly be. If anything, I actually found this movie quite humorous especially when Megan's friend get hit by a car. She is laying there dead in the road, blood coming out of her head, they run over and couldn't look less surprised. either she wasn't a very good friend or the actors evidently didn't know how a group of whiny teenagers should react to the death of their friend. What really made me laugh is the fact they completely dismissed her death, left her dead in the road and brought the guy that hit her into the motel. A total stranger that they didn't know? I also don't think running over a girl's head would make you crash so severely that you're knocked out and bleeding. For the rest of the film, there's no mention of her!

The film overall was predictable as hell and I couldn't possibly list all the things that annoyed me about it. I found it really difficult to watch it till the end since I was just so bored, I stopped paying it so much attention after about 30 minutes. Despite the fact I should probably write something positive about it, I'm finding it really hard to pick out anything I liked, I guess the cinematography wasn't too bad.

my advice for anyone thinking about watching this is, don't. And for the life of you do not pay money for it, if you want to laugh at the expense of terrible film making go ahead. But if you're looking for scares, don't bother, you wont find any here.

5 screwed up friends decide to have a fun weekend in an RV, only for their drug addicted friend to crash. Stranding them in a haunted abandoned motel in the middle of nowhere. This film is a craptacular spectacle of bad acting and writing. How can these people call each other friends? Someone decided write a movie about secrets being reveiled, only to forget it has to be realistic that these people would actually like each other. When one of their friends die, the have the most nonchalant reaction. If the basis of a script is stupid then the movie is going to be stupid. I guess the secret of making a good movie was lost on a who was involved.