Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, Scott G. Anderson Directed By: Nimród Antal Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 99 Release Date: August 14, 2007 Running Time: 85 minutes Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
Product Description: 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
Keeps you guessing My husband bought this for me and I love it. Has the suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing. Give a try you just may like it.
Predictable but entertaining A la the very obvious backdrop of Psycho, Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale deliver nearly shrill preformances in a somewhat predictable outcome as they are trapped in a horror story.
Wilson and Beckinsale, in perhaps the most hostile couple ever caught on film, are driving in the middle of the night, hopelessly lost. Way off course and hating each other by the minute (they just had to throw in the telltale photograph of their son who has died under unknown conditions), they stop at a sleazy hotel to sleep it off when they discover some videotapes. They realize their room is bugged with video equipment, and the murders they see on the tapes have taken place in the very hotel room where they are staying. The movie unfolds into their harrowing attempts to escape.
It had some potential, but it didn't quite fly off as real suspense. Instead it turned into one botched attempt after another. Predictable and kind of hysterical, especially on Beckinsale's part. Luke Wilson is still in the shadow of his more famous brother Owen and still trying to get out from under him. Even though he gives everything the old college try, this wasn't his vehicle to put him on the same page.
The theaters were Vacant for this lame film This was your typical by-the-book "thriller" - if I dare use that word for this film.. Starts off at night as usual, car breaks down as usual, and they have to go to a run down place with creepy people that try to murder them.. that's the story. It also has some of the worst acting i've ever seen.. I am really suprised that these 2 famous actor/actress agreed to partake in such a horrible film.
I'd complain more about how bad the film is, but if you really like the same thing over and over again, I wont spoil your ending - which is also really lame, unrealistic(not that it should matter in these types of films), and has the worst acting for these two.
Predictable and Weak I did not like this movie at all; it was predictable and weak. No plot twists, nothing really scary.
terrifying and realistic Vacancy may appear like evert other horror flick such as a couple getting stalked by murderers. But you're wrong, dead wrong. Vacancy grabs your attention within the first 15-25 minutes, because the motel room the couple stays at is just so creepy. Overall Vacancy is one of the most realistic and terrifying films of any horror flick of 2005.
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