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A new and underrated horror series is slashing its way up the streaming charts and could take the No. 1 spot in AMC+’s Top 10 soon. Per FlixPatrol, Hell Motel is up one spot and currently sits in second place out of all the movies and shows streaming on AMC+. The series is just behind the 2024 Captain Nemo origin story Nautilus and is just ahead of The Walking Dead: Dead City, which sits in the No. 3 spot.
Hell Motel, which also streams on Shudder, hails from Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin, the creative team behind the Shudder series Slasher. The show takes place at the Cold River Motel, which is said to be the site of a Satanic ritual and brutal massacre three decades ago. With the show currently making waves on streaming, it’s the perfect time to dive in.
AMC+ Top 10 in the United States, July 3, 2025
Hell Motel is Part of the Slasher Universe
While not a direct sequel to Carpenter and Martin’s Slasher, Hell Motel is set in the same universe. In Hell Motel, a group of true crime aficionados is invited to be a part of the grand opening of the Cold River Motel, which has been renovated and re-branded after the mass murder and still-unsolved crimes that took place 30 years ago. However, at Hell Motel, history repeats itself when the guests start getting picked off one by one.
The series currently has an 80% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. It stars Emmy-winner Eric McCormack (Will & Grace, Perception), Shaun Benson (The Boys), Paula Brancati (Slasher, Degrassi: The Nest Generation), Genevieve DeGraves (Chapelwaite, Slasher), Emmanuel Kabongo, Yanna McIntosh, Atticus Mitchell, Gray Powell, Jim Watson, Brynn Godenir, Michelle Nolden, and Lauren Lee Smith (Departure).
Hell Motel (AMC+)
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80% |
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5.4/10 |
Hell Motel Is One of Two McCormack Hits This Year
McCormack, who rose to fame as Will Truman in Will & Grace and won an Emmy for the role in 2001, is having a bit of a resurgence. Earlier this year, McCormack starred in MGM+’s Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue alongside Lydia Wilson and Davis Ajala. Both his roles in the murder mystery Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue and the horror series Hell Motel are quite different than his comedic turn in Will & Grace.
The actor, in a previous interview with CBR, talked about what drew him to his Nine Bodies role. “First of all, they had me at shooting this in the Canary Islands, and then to realize that all of us would be — to use your word Lydia — misfits. Nobody lives in the Canary Islands, so we had to band together as actors, the same way that the characters do. And I think I was just really drawn to that sort of life imitating art… except that the characters have to figure out a way to get water, and we just had to have a gin and tonic at 6:05 every day. (Laughs),” he said.
Hell Motel is streaming on AMC+.
