Vacancy (2007)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 53
Vacancy's restraint with gore is commendable, the thin characters and B-movie cliches less so.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 14
Vacancy's restraint with gore is commendable, the thin characters and B-movie cliches less so.
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A vacationing couple makes a terrifying discovery about the motel room they have just checked into in this thriller scripted by Mark L. Smith and directed by Nimród Antal (Kontroll). Their car broken down and their prospects for finding a tow-truck driver at such a late hour slim to none, David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) decide to make the best of their situation by resting out the night at a nearby motel. Left with few choices of entertainment for the evening, the pair soon
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Kate Beckinsale
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Luke Wilson
David Fox -
Frank Whaley
Mason -
Ethan Embry
Mechanic -
Scott G. Anderson
Killer -
Mark Cassella
Truck Driver -
David Doty
Highway Patrol -
Norm Compton
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Caryn Mower
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Megan Godfrey
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Kym Stys
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Andrew Fiscella
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Dale Waddington Horowitz
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Ernie Misko
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Bryan Ross
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Chevon Hicks
Snuff Victim
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All Critics (123) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (53) | DVD (19)
It's not pretty, but it's certainly vacant.
Top CriticVacancy may be trying to bridge both worlds, but it ends up straddling the fence.
Vacancy, in the end, simply offers a particularly aggressive brand of couples counseling.
It's welcome to see another movie that relies more on apprehension and suspense than torture chambers. Vacancy might not get Mr. Hitchcock smiling from above. But he won't be spinning in his grave, either.
Packs a lot of old-fashioned shocks into its taut 80-minute running time.
The point of Vacancy is the terror, not the torture. Horror is vastly more effective when left to the mind's eye and it is what we can't see in Vacancy that truly frightens.
Once the fight-for-their-lives plot kicks in, unfortunately named director Nimród Antal keeps the action intense and well paced.
An unpleasant and hardly entertaining creepy horror road movie that comes up as vacant as an empty room.
[Director Nimrod] Antal does such a good job that you almost overlook the absurdities built into the screenplay.
Taut, grisly horror movie has unexpected bite.
Vacancy is a no-nonsense, no ambition thriller, but sometimes that's more than enough to please.
Very creepy.
All things considered, not half bad. Indeed, it's much less than half bad.
Un pasatiempo eficaz que recupera parte del espíritu de la clase B al servicio de un relato tenso y por momentos perturbador, sin mayores pretensiones.
It's certainly no re-invention of the wheel, but this 12th-generation mini-Hitchcocker gets in, messes with your head, and bolts out the door in less than 90 quick minutes.
a nastily effective, rough-edged gem of a horror-thriller
Once this gets going, it's a pretty good ride.
A fierce little spooker with screwy notions of how to salve a wounded relationship.
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- David Fox: [having seen a snuff movie] At least they could've provided us with a little bit of porn.
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Foreign Titles
- Motel (FR)
- Habitación sin salida (ES)
