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A confined setting is a useful tool for thriller-makers, and Vacancy is definitely boxed in: a run-down motel way, way off the Interstate, the kind of place where unsuspecting movie characters go to get stabbed to death in the shower. If Vacancy doesn't quite live up to its Hitchcockian forbears, at least it provides 80 minutes of well-designed mayhem. You know somebody's paying attention just from the opening credits, a clever vortex with pounding music by Paul Haslinger. Then we meet unhappy couple Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, driving along in the dark and forced to stay at the Pinewood Motel after a car breakdown. There's a night man (Frank Whaley, World Trade Center) in the tradition of Dennis Weaver's Touch of Evil gargoyle, but the real mess of trouble is waiting in room number 4.
Director Nimrod Antal, who scored a stylish international hit with the Hungarian thriller Kontroll, squeezes maximum juice out of the Route 66 atmosphere of the motel, although the movie doesn't get under your skin the way Kontroll did. Wilson and Beckinsale are a little too marquee-namish for this kind of heavy-breathing work, and the script doesn't give them much to play with. But hey, it's not that kind of movie. Where it really belongs is on the top half of a drive-in double bill, or maybe as a nightmare-scenario TV movie from the Seventies. Either way, it works. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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VACANCY is a 2007 horror film starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson. It was actually very enjoyable! If your a massive fan of over-the-top gore then you might not be impressed with this, but if you like suspense, jump-out-of-your-seat moments, a good storyline and great acting then you'll love VACANCY. It was actually very scary and original. I wasn't expecting much as the reviews on Amazon weren't great, but I found it highly entertaining. There are some funny parts, some action-packed parts, some pretty gross parts and lots of creepy parts. The DVD doesn't cost much so why don't you just buy it? It's worth a few quid. I recommend VACANCY if your tired of rubbish old horror films and want to watch a creepy and original one. BRILLIANT! 5 STARS!
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Oh my! - yet another seedy gas station/motel staffed by twitching yocals. Okay, so Antal and Smith cover no new ground here but their reworking of conventional themes is well done. They keep their tongues firmly in cheek while composing a taut and suspenseful little chiller. Even though it's pretty clear where the plot's going it still keeps the viewer gripped. The performances from the small cast are good, with the ravishing Ms Beckinsale giving the best performance I've seen from her to date. A simple suspense flick that ticks all the right boxes. What's not to like?
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Couple Amy and David Fox(Kate Beckinsdale and Luke Wilson) are forced to leave the interstate and after hitting an animal encounter problems with their car. They come across a garage and the mechanic seemingly fixes the problem. However, a mile down the road and the car breaks down. They return on foot to the garage, but the mechanic has gone home.
They see a motel across the road, and are greeted at reception by creepy Mason(Frank Whaley) who offers them the honeymoon suite for the night. They accept the offer and attempt to settle down for the night.First off, they hear loud knocking on the door of the room, and on the walls, David tells Mason and it stops. Then, David who cant get the television to work, decides to put on a video that he finds on top of the goggle box. Its a home video.People are being killed in it. The room looks awfully familiar. Then theres another knock at the door...
When I watched the superb opening title sequence that brings to mind Saul Bass's best work for Hitchcock, I thought I was in for a real treat. Okay, its an enjoyable enough thriller, with a couple of creepy touches, but it did dissapoint with its lack of scope. It builds up a very tense situation, only to turn into a routine cat and mouse thriller with a lame duck ending. The two leads give good performances, and theres excellent support from Whaley, but I found it all a little familiar.Maybe its just that I'm a little jaded and was over expectant as to what I would see.
Still, an entertaining enough watch, and those opening and closing title sequences sure are good. 3 out of 5
They see a motel across the road, and are greeted at reception by creepy Mason(Frank Whaley) who offers them the honeymoon suite for the night. They accept the offer and attempt to settle down for the night.First off, they hear loud knocking on the door of the room, and on the walls, David tells Mason and it stops. Then, David who cant get the television to work, decides to put on a video that he finds on top of the goggle box. Its a home video.People are being killed in it. The room looks awfully familiar. Then theres another knock at the door...
When I watched the superb opening title sequence that brings to mind Saul Bass's best work for Hitchcock, I thought I was in for a real treat. Okay, its an enjoyable enough thriller, with a couple of creepy touches, but it did dissapoint with its lack of scope. It builds up a very tense situation, only to turn into a routine cat and mouse thriller with a lame duck ending. The two leads give good performances, and theres excellent support from Whaley, but I found it all a little familiar.Maybe its just that I'm a little jaded and was over expectant as to what I would see.
Still, an entertaining enough watch, and those opening and closing title sequences sure are good. 3 out of 5
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I loved it!
What can i say "i loved it!! This is one of the greatest films ive seen in a long time it has everything you want to see in a horror movie.The 2nd one however was rubbish. Read more
Published 1 month ago by lori29
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This is a great film, very creepy and has some jumpy bits. Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson are great on screen together and play their parts very well. Well worth a watch.
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"..COOL THRILLER.."
This was a fun movie to watch, great cast, cool story and played out quite well til the end.. the open credit sequence to the movie is also rather cool. Read more
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good film! egde of seat!
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With mixed reviews I was unsure what to expect from `Vacancy', but I watched it with an open mind and found it to be a decent enough film. Read more
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This was just sooooooooo bad!
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