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A suspenseful classic thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale that will keep you on the edge of your seat and your heart pounding! When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around with only the TV to entertain them... until they discover that the low-budget slasher videos they find in their room were all filmed in the very room they're sitting in. With hidden cameras now aimed at them... trapping them in rooms crawlspaces underground tunnels... and filming their every move David and Amy must struggle to get out alive before whomever is watching them can finish their latest masterpiece.System Requirements:Running Time: 85 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 043396182882 Manufacturer No: 18288

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A confined setting is a useful tool for thriller-makers, and Vacancy is definitely boxed in: a rundown 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, decadent) 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

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While the movie did a good job building suspense and keeping an interesting pace and story going, it lacked severely in finding new ways to scare me.

I wasn't really scared at all because I always knew what was coming up next. The only time I really felt any fear was when the couple arrived to their room and kept hearing banging sounds from the doors. After the banging kept going, I thought maybe ghosts were responsible for stirring up trouble.

After a while though, when it was discovered there were bad guys who apparently loved to kill anyone who spent the night in that room, we pretty much knew what the story was going to be about- the man and woman trying to find a way out of that place, and out of the town to get some help.

The other scary moment was when the couple found some VCR tapes near the TV, and when the husband put the tapes in and seen some frighteningly realistic things (I don't want to spoil what it was they seen) that part was good too.

Sure, there were some creative ways the couple found to avoid the killers, but it wasn't enough to make up for a rather average and obvious way to make a thriller.