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Summary: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Vacancy is basically what I was hoping for in a horror film. The plot is basic, the pacing is quick and the characters are interesting. While there are jump scenes, they are well placed and actually add to the film, instead of detracting from it. While the plot does get a slight bit silly near the end, it did seem like one of the better ways it could have finished. It offers some scares, and while it doesn't stick with you long, it'll be remembered if you ever stay at a cheap, isolated motel.
An eighty-minute minimal thriller. Antal, American-born director of the absurdist-existentialist Kontroll, came back from Hungary to give this some class and presumably to raise his economic standing if not his artistic. Mission accomplished. Stupidity with style.
This is your typical bad horror movie full of plot holes and characters making really dumb unbelievable choices. The actors were fine they just need to choose better scripts then this one.
"Antal's array of sleek cinematographic arrangements succinctly link his villains to his viewers as likeminded voyeurs turned on by scenes of torture and mayhem." - Nick Schager
Good for playing a game of horror-cliché bingo, but not much else. The plot is thin to begin with, so when the "reveal" is made after about 40 minutes, there's nothing of any interest left and it just descends into a painfully protracted game of hide-and-seek. Very dull. Bonus points for the literal (ie unimaginative) use of a Chekhov's gun.