Vacancy |  | Director: Nimród Antal
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, Scott G. Anderson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 18288
UPC: 043396182882
EAN: 0043396182882
ASIN: B000RGN2JI
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
Release Date: August 14, 2007
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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 Stills from Vacancy (click for larger image) More Vacancy on Amazon.com 
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Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 169
 good movie March 12, 2010
David A. Smith (Webberville, Mi, USA)
this is a really good movie keeps you on the edge of your seat. i recommend this movie to all horror movie lovers
 YAWN February 20, 2010
Up North
The problem with movies of this approximate genre is that they first tie themselves to rather rigid formulas and then defeat themselves by sticking to these formulas through any absurdity, thereby defeating the original purpose of being scary and suspenseful. Concerning what I've always considered the folly of "wanting to be scared" - I wasn't. Why? Because I knew that at some point all of the following would happen in one way or another: 1. unsuspecting people isolated in the dark where baddies are waiting to kill them 2. baddies are unusally adept at trapping or tormenting couple, and couple have little brains to avoid their predicaments 3. couple are far from help and when help comes it (usually he) is killed or neutralized somehow in a predictable pitch to "heighten the despair" 4. the dude character eventually gets caught or killed leaving the hapless female to avoid the killers on her own 5. through sheer luck the hapless female wins out in the end in a series of "exciting" flukes, and the big scary dudes tyring to kill her are stupid, bad shots, and cannot otherwise overcome a small and frightened woman 6. no attempt is made any longer by filmmakers at strengthening the plot ending once this predictable sequence of events has been employed = "use and discard" anticlimax There are other hackneyed horror/suspense devices used, but I'll stop here.
 gotta depart from the editorial review a bit here November 29, 2009
B. Lafave (lakeland , fl)
it sorta works . for the couple to get (even a portion of) the drop on the baddies does not ring true . after having seen a very well constructed and compelling trailer for this film i'll admit i was really hooked . additionally , there is some good filmaking and are some well earned scares here . sadly , there is just no way i buy it could have gone down that way . every one on the many killers would have had to simultainiously "get sloppy" and start running around like a bunch of nincompoops . what ? they'd never seen folks fight for their lives before ? mind you , i was rooting for the young couple , but the ways and means committee has stamped this film implusible and the antagonists collectively too stupid by half . i thought the implication was "this is not their(the villains) first time" ? our heros would have had to be a lot more resourceful than writen and shown here . adequate .
 EXCELLENT November 28, 2009
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
An upper class devorving couple gets stuck on the backroads and has to spend the night at a fleabag motel. In their room they find video tapes, made in the hotel by the front desk man. Smart, they figure out they are next.
Vacancy is basically a cat and mouse film around the motel, which is filled with trap doors and secret hatches. There is not a lot new in this film, but this is good.
The script is stripped lean to the elements of the chase, and the suprises come in how the couple gets away. There are no cheap tricks, and everything seems plausable.
This is classic good vs. evil horror, and for good horror, simplicity and formala, with a few twists, is all it takes.
Reccommended.
A quality and geniuely scary thriller! October 19, 2009
John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)
David (Luke Wilson) and Amy (Kate Beckinsale) are a married couple in need of a place to stay as they are in the middle of nowhere. They stumble to a motel where they think they feel safe and more confortable as they have a TV with VCR to entertain them, but the videos shown are low budget slasher movies that actually are murder films. There's a secret about the motel that the owners are actually murderers who create snuff films for their pleasure, now David and Amy must find a way to escaped the motel from hell.
Intense and riviting psychological horror thriller from director Nimrod Antal and writer Mark L. Smith is a fun and very Alfred Hitchock-like suspenser. This one differs from the recent glut of torture flicks as it does focus on the plot and characterizations much like the original "SAW" movie but more to "Psycho" and 1980's underrated "Motel Hell". The film co-stars Ethan Embry and Frank Waley, it's a go-for-the-throat thriller that harkens back to the good old fashion psychological thriller days with suspense and twists.
This Blu-Ray gives a wonderful theatrical quality transfer on the image and terrific sound with a few extras like extended snuff films, featurette and deleted scenes.
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