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.
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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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Vacancy enjoys a cracking pace, all thrills and no frills, leaving viewers barely enough time to catch their breath let alone to dwell on the odd hole in the plot.
06/13/07
Well engineered if hilariously less than airtight even within the parameters of its own dark, sinister premise.
04/20/07
Vacancy is bracing, blissfully succinct, and rip-the-armrest-off terrifying; it's worth every blood-smeared minute of your time.
04/19/07
What drives Vacancy is its ingenious premise, from which director Nimrod Antal wrings every ounce of tension.
04/19/07
Vacancy is a no-nonsense, no ambition thriller, but sometimes that's more than enough to please.
07/04/08
Director Nimrod Antal works with razor-sharp skill, amping up the horror with suggestion and anticipation rather than flashy embellishments.
04/19/07
The movie is 80 minutes of mostly entertaining tension, punctuated by violence engineered by a creep using criminally outdated technology.
05/30/07
If Psycho and Peeping Tom are the seminal killer-as-voyeur movies, Vacancy is the nasty little runt offspring with no other purpose in life but to gnaw on you. This it does uncommonly well.
04/16/07
Top CriticWith 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
...the film achieves exactly the sort of fun, fast-paced vibe that both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were undoubtedly going for in [Grindhouse].
04/20/07
Just the ticket for genre fans starved for a movie that actually thrills.
04/20/07
What Vacancy lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in pure and unadulterated scares.
04/16/07
Short, sharp and to the point, Vacancy has a single goal, and that is to scare the hell out of you. It's not as gleefully sadistic as, say, Hostel, but it will give you one very rough night's sleep. Naturally, I mean that as a compliment.
04/20/07
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
Uses the simplicity of its premise to its advantage, reducing the story to its purest elements and using them to scare the poop out of us.
04/19/07
The terror in 'Vacancy,' a pleasantly frightening little tale, comes from interesting characters and psychology rather than action and blood.
04/22/07
What starts out as a slick but generic urban legend meets slasher film turns into a surprisingly enjoyable thriller
05/12/07
An all-night cat-and-mouse game, conducted with antic drive by director Nimrod Antal and carried along with conviction by the cast.
04/19/07
Top CriticAn economical (less than 90 minutes) and often brutally effective scare machine that sometimes, somehow, manages to feel less derivative than it is.
04/19/07
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