Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel is a 1991 neo-noir black comedy written and directed by Alien Castle[3] and produced by Donald P. Borchers.
[6] The Los Angeles Times called it "a would be comic sexy thriller paced like a tipped bottle of ketchup, it keeps coming at you in waves.
"[8] A review for TV Guide stated the film "strives for a jokey, stylistically dense parody of 1950s potboilers, but fails completely.
Castle, with clunky direction and a badly paced over-the-top screenplay containing dialogue dipped in a curious amalgam of Somerset Maugham and James Elroy ('They say radioactive things have a half life as they decay.
"[2] In his review for Empire, William Thomas wrote, "Twin Peaks' Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) is the provocative heart of this strange, shambling and daft dialogue-heavy black comedy, which tries very hard, but doesn’t quite hit the mark.