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Vacancy
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396182882
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 18288
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
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Editorial Review:
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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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - some good, some average
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, ... Read More
Rating:  - NIMRÓD ANTAL, OPUS 2
***1/2 2007. Directed by Nimród Antal. Lost in nowhere land, a couple stops at the Pinewood Motel. They soon understand that the man in charge is a psychopathic peeping tom. Locked in their room, Amy and David Fox must find a way out. VACANCY is a very good surprise. First of all, the film looks very professionnal with its superb opening credits. Then the first scenes in the Fox's car are a little jewel of mise-en-scene, the camera work revealing a true author/director. The rest of the film delivers ... Read More
Rating: - Lesson 231 Learned from horror movies: Travel with a Gun
Today's horror follows the same script nearly every time. It's the torture genre of Hostel, Saw, and a few other smaller films. Luckily, Vacancy doesn't follow that mold.
Amy Fox (Beckinsale) and Dave (Wilson) are a couple struggling in their relationship. They end up having car problems, much like Breakdown, and are forced to stay the night at the only place available, a horrible looking motel that reminded me quite a bit of Psycho. That was the first clue they overlooked. The second ... Read More
Rating:  - David Lynch & Hitchcock Influences in this Stellar Thriller!
I felt like I had died and gone to hell in a great scary movie kind of way right from the beginning!
I'm a big fan of psychological thrillers that rely on the use of lighting, minimal dialog, silence, alienation, common phobias, and intriguing psychopaths like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet and Anthony Perkins in psycho. My favorite setting is also used in this film- a remote, out of the way outdated motel.
This movie proves that you don't need to rely on computer tricks, soundtracks ... Read More
Rating: - Suprisingly good
After reading all the negative reviews and putting aside my fears of wasting my time with this film, I was actually quite surprised with how good it was. While some of it is formulaic, I believe that this "horror" movie contains two of the smartest protagonists ever. Luke Wilson's character does not act with the usual "let's separate and go into the woods" mentality. Wilson's performance was pretty good as well - quite believable. May not be for the Saw and Friday the 13th or gorefest fans - but a nice little ... Read More
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