HEARTBREAK MOTEL (POOR PRETTY EDDIE)

Cinemavixion Review

This 1975 film, "Heartbreak Motel" (also known as "Poor Pretty Eddie"), plunges viewers into a dark and unsettling narrative. A wrong turn on a road trip leads jazz singer Elizabeth Wetherly to an isolated lodge, a place of decay run by the washed-up starlet Bertha Collins and her chillingly devoted son, Eddie, who harbors a dangerous obsession with Elvis Presley. The film promises a descent into the bizarre and potentially violent underbelly of the American South, exploring themes of isolation, obsession, and faded glory through its intriguing premise and the performances of Leslie Uggams and Shelley Winters.