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Vacancy (2007)
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Reviews Counted:117
Fresh:64
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Vacancy's restraint with gore is commendable, the thin characters and B-movie cliches less so.
Theatrical Release:Apr 20, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $18,986,844
Synopsis: This riveting thriller features Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as a couple whose car breaks down, stranding them at a very dangerous hotel. Director Nimrod Antal carefully builds the suspense as... [More]
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry
Director: Nimrod Antal
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Reviews for Vacancy
An unpleasant and hardly entertaining creepy horror road movie that comes up as vacant as an empty room.
09/30/08
[Director Nimrod] Antal does such a good job that you almost overlook the absurdities built into the screenplay.
07/17/08
Vacancy is a no-nonsense, no ambition thriller, but sometimes that's more than enough to please.
07/04/08
Very creepy.
10/05/07
All things considered, not half bad. Indeed, it's much less than half bad.
09/20/07
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.
09/08/07
Vacancy isn't a commentary, just another graphically violent horror movie, traveling a well-worn path -- urbanites wandering into the countryside and being accosted by rural weirdos.
08/04/07
It's only in the last act that things begin to get a bit flaky but up till then VACANCY does what it sets out to do without any pretenses.
07/14/07
Vacancy may not be the most wholly original thriller but it has some heart to it and is directed with gritty, old school style by Nimród Antal. Coupled with the good work done by the leads, Vacancy is worth checking into.
06/22/07
Vacancy is an enjoyable, pleasingly old-fashioned thriller with strong performances and some expertly handled suspense sequences. Recommended.
06/15/07
This more than slightly familiar scenario doesn't give the principals much scope for acting.
06/15/07
Vacancy’s an audience divider – a predictable yet occasionally classy film. Depending on your mood it’s an efficient exercise in popcorn frights, or a cynical B-movie...
06/15/07
director Nimrod Antal settles for a more generic horror-ride as the imperatives of stalk-and-escape take hold. For a while, though, this is first-rate second-hand material.
06/15/07
Terrific turns by all make this a tense, if slightly predictable, treat for terror fans.
06/15/07
With shades of Psycho and The Birds, Vacancy sure isn’t up there with The Master’s finest work but, given that we haven’t had a decent horror all year, it’s a pleasantly creepy surprise.
06/15/07
Kit out the Bates Motel with surveillance cameras, replace Anthony Perkins with the ineffectual Frank Whaley, and you'd have the location for this irritatingly cheapjack snuff-horror thriller, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as a depressed couple
06/15/07
well, however much I wanted to love it, the same old sorts of things happen, and the rigorous plausibility and consistency on which everything depends are thrown away.
06/15/07
I know, you couldn’t make it up. But someone did.
06/15/07
An effective assembly of familiar chills diminished by its unfortunate mainstream feints.
06/15/07
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