tangreat-bk A scary and taut thriller.At 80 mins this one doesn't overstay it's welcome. The director wisely focuses on building atmosphere and tension rather than gore and cheap jumpscares. Although there is a fair amount of the latter. The perforances are mostly excellent. Kate Beckinsale is really good but I was not hugely impressed by Luke Wilson's portrayal. I thought he was trying too hard. This is basically a home invasion movie with a new coat of paint. All the horror tropes are there but they are not invasive. It remains an engaging experience throughout. The gravest sin this movie commits is it's ending. It almost threatens to derail the experience of what preceded. I facepalmed!Still solid experience for horror/thriller enthusiasts.

will-05196 Not a perfect movie, but if you go into this with the expectations you should have of a slasher, you might be pleasantly surprised. Was a pretty effective thrill ride for the most part, an interesting premise, and they took the time to develop the characters, humanize them.... they are not the typical generic cardboard cutout stand-ins of your usual slasher.Nor are they just - how to put it - gore meat, there for the slaughter. They make a contest of it, and you are really not sure till the end if they are going to make it. Unlike a lot of the more cheesey and lame flicks (like Wolf Creek) the bad guys are not immune to error, and will not necessarily magically appear wherever they need to... you feel watching it like the prey has a fighting chance to make it out.The build-up is really well done. It's not too slow, not too fast, and the vids the guy finds in his hotel room are really pretty realistic and horrific.------------------------------------Spoilers------------------------------------Little details bothered me on occasion:-end scene when Amy calls 911, doesn't stress the need for an ambulance (husband still alive after all)-considering one cop has already been through, the hotel guy & his two killers leave the body of David sitting out in the open overnight?-why did one of the bad guys jump on top of the car to get her out of it (the car hadn't started or moved at the point he decides to jump on the car - wouldn't you go to the door to yank her out of the car rather than jump on the roof with intention to go through the windshield?-The escallation of events was a bit ham-fisted in a few places when subtlety would have been better - eg, when the "fake 911 call" happens, and a car barrels through the phone box, at the time I thought it was a bit of a tension killer... imagine if instead he realises they are still messing with him, is creeped out by something more subtle, and rushes back to the room to save his wife.In all, this is not a film for the ages, but you don't expect that going into a slasher, you expect a thrill ride, and this one delivers. Stands out head and shoulders above its peers in the genre, worth watching... turn off the lights, grab the popcorn & lock the doors.

adonis98-743-186503 A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film. Vacancy is the kind of thriller with all those dumb moments that every thriller suffers from this days it tries to be scary but it's not, the leading main villain is over the top and dies by his own normal stupidity and for once more a cop dies because he thinks he is some kind of John Rambo if you can pass the dumb moments Vacancy is actually a nice film with 2 good leading performances although the script does have problems and i won't lie about it but it's still a nice movie but don't except much from it to be honest 7.5/10

SlyGuy21 "Vacancy" is another example of building suspense, thrills, and twists without having to resort to the clichés that have plagued horror movies for years. There's very little blood, next to no nudity, well done jump-scares (aside from the one at the beginning), and the plot is simple and has less than 10 characters to it. It has a goal, and a mission, and it doesn't need a bunch of college kids looking to get wasted to move the plot along. Wilson and Beckinsale, do really well with their roles, as does Frank Whaley (Mason). I guess you could compare this to a modernized "Psycho", while certainly not a remake, I got similar vibes when I saw "Psycho" a few months ago. "Vacancy" had a lot of guts to be made right in the middle of the "Torture Porn Era" of horror movies, but, like "Disturbia", it manages to succeed with it's story, characters, and simple plot.