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Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Torture porn is the chic term thrown around these days to provide a subversively grotesque genre for films like the Saw and Hostel series. Men and women subjected to all sorts of horrific living-death type situations while the characters inflicting such ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Trades (Scott Juba)The Trades (Scott Juba)
Chances are that almost everyone has at least one horror story of a lousy motel visit. After watching “Vacancy,” you likely won’t complain about yours any more. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Trades (Scott Juba)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
I see dozens of "suspense thrillers" that deliver (maybe) two or three half-hearted attempts at actual suspense, only to follow those moments up with 12-18 minutes of aimless plot-wanderings and general actor-babble. Kinda tough to keep an intense tone ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)
The unhappy marrieds who stray off the interstate in "Vacancy" think that the most unpleasant thing awaiting them is a night in the same bed. But when their car breaks down on a quiet rural road, the only place to stay is a run-down motel with some ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)
There’s something to be said about efficiency, especially in a spooky suspense picture. There’s no berry sweeter than a chiller that doesn’t allow itself to be swallowed by excess or indulgence. “Vacancy” is a furious get-in-and-get-out viewing ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Orndorf)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
There are a few problems with Vacancy, but warning, they’re strange ones, not typical of the genre. It’s a thriller that’s legitimately scary at times, but for the wrong reasons. It’s a horror that’s cast big name stars, but that both helps and ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
Two weeks after we were spoiled by the sludgy monument of Grindhouse, a whole other low-budget thrill ride from the annals of our sticky-floor, damp-seat, scratched-print celluloid history is deployed with full-force. Following his promising debut, ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ShowBIZ DataShowBIZ Data
Horror films rarely receive much praise from critics. Vacancy, starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson, is getting quite a lot of it. Gene Seymour in Newsday writes: "The movie executes its every borrowed, nerve-bruising plot twist with such gruesome ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
"Vacancy" has a barebones plot, no major twists or revelations, and follows a point-A-to-point-B path with few detours. It's a study in narrative minimalism, really, slowly but surely escalating with a sense of dread that, once it gets going, never lets ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
Is it me or was VACANCY treated like an unwanted, one legged and red-headed stepwhore by the powers that be? The marketing campaign and the push behind the film were a lot like me in the sack after a face-off with a bottle of bourbon; limp and impotent. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Moviepie.comMoviepie.com
Directed by Nimród Antal, who also helmed the gloomy and atmospheric subterranean subway thriller Kontroll, Vacancy gets off to a decent start (the world’s worst chit-chat dialogue filler notwithstanding). Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson co-star as ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Moviepie.com
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ReelTalk (Frank Wilkins)ReelTalk (Frank Wilkins)
We've all stayed in one before. The run-down, sleazy fleabag motel with so few cars in the parking lot we wonder how such a place could remain in business. As in Vacancy, perhaps these motels have an alternate source of income. The Pinewood Motel ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at ReelTalk (Frank Wilkins)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Sun Newspapers of Cleveland Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Director Nimrod Antal may not have mined new depths of horror/slasher moviemaking with "Vacancy," but he revives the genre with scary closeups and lighting tricks to fashion a nerve-wracking thriller. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for La Presse, Montréal La Presse, Montréal
C'est un couple fini, trop profondément blessé pour survivre. Avant de rompre définitivement et de signer les derniers papiers de divorce, David et Amy (Luke Wilson et Kate Beckinsale) entreprennent un ultime voyage de couple. Évidemment, rien ne se ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at La Presse, Montréal
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice Magazine
Regurgitating Psycho and Peeping Tom for the YouTube generation, Vacancy posits that the best marriage therapy involves trying to escape a fleabag motel room before snuff filmmakers videotape your murder. But its aspirations for torture-porn hall-of-fame ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
When it comes to thrillers, sometimes less is more, and Vacancy is further proof of that. The plot doesn't have an A to B succession. It stays at point A, and the only progression is the degree of danger in which the main characters find themselves. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Picture Film (Scott Hoffman)Movie Picture Film (Scott Hoffman)
Finally, a film labeled as scary movie that actually is scary! From director Nimrod Antal (the underrated "Kontroll") this highly original, moody, creepy scare-fest is one of the best suspense films I've seen in years. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Movie Picture Film (Scott Hoffman)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAtlanta Journal-Constitution
While stranded at a remote motel, a couple discover hidden cameras in their room and learn they are to be the stars of a snuff film. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for
"Vacancy" is your typical slasher horror flick; first of all it's predictable. However, director Nimrod Antul leaves the viewer with some goodies, and entertainment that horror fans will find enjoyable, and eye dropping. "Vacancy" also attracts the ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Desson Thomson)Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
"Vacancy" is another motel-hell horror flick in which an unfortunate, attractive couple (in this case, Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale) discover that "room service" isn't about clean towels, champagne and oysters so much as getting stabbed and videotaped ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Toronto Star (Peter Howell)Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
And that's a very good thing, for once. Because in seeking to simply goose our pulse rate rather than provoke our gag reflex, director Nimród Antal helps revive the art of old-school shocks. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle
"Vacancy" is another motel-hell horror flick in which an unfortunate, attractive couple (in this case, Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale) discover that "room service" isn't about clean towels, champagne and oysters so much as getting stabbed and videotaped ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at San Francisco Chronicle
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
It is not wise to expect much from a film about a married couple who are forced to stay in a creepy, dilapidated motel after their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. That sparse set-up is as old as time, the subject of campfire stories for as long ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
When their car breaks down on a deserted road, David and Amy Fox (Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale) have little choice but to make the best of it and spend the night at a shabby motel. With a beat up TV set and VCR their only entertainment, the watch a ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
This banal horror retread involves a couple of critters flailing inside a sticky trap for what is, in effect, the big-screen equivalent of a roach motel. Luke Wilson, who could stand a career intervention, and Kate Beckinsale, the reigning queen of the ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Arizona Republic The Arizona Republic
In Vacancy, the filmmakers take lots of familiar elements from other movies, then twist them around in ways that are quite unpredictable. Watching the film, in fact, a viewer is surprised at just how good it is and how it makes the routine seem startling ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Arizona Republic
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for St. Louis Post-DispatchSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!" So sayeth the Eagles' "Hotel California." Thirty years later, the diabolical place with no exit is a multiplex full of horror movies. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Vacancy is a nicely compact, tense thriller that loses a little of its punch as a result of a rushed, generic ending. For the most part, the English-language debut of Nimrod Atal (Kontroll) offers a strong sense of atmosphere and escalating suspense. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for VarietyVariety
Dubious ethical aspects aside, Nimrod Antal proves himself an able director who has made a highly cinematic movie. Shooter Andrzej Sekula's compositionsare startling for a film of this ilk, the pace is appropriately brisk and everything clicks, at least ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Variety
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for FangoriaFangoria
VACANCY is a movie in which people get away with murder, in more ways than one. Not only have its villains been brutally killing people in secret for some time as the story opens, but the filmmakers telling that tale weave a number of credibility ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Fangoria
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for U.S. Conference of Catholic BishopsU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
As far as hoteliers go, Mason, the night manager of the dilapidated Pinewood Motel, makes Norman Bates seem like a pussycat. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
While Vacancy certainly does an effective job of keeping he viewer thoroughly engaged throughout its refreshingly brisk running time, there's little doubt that the film starts to fall apart once one starts to really mull over its various plot twists in ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
It's the modest but effective setting of Vacancy, a generic but effectively nerve-wracking horror thriller that replaces room service with doom service. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)
...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun
Vacancy is a mangy-looking mongrel with a lot of familiar markings and a little more on the ball than you'd expect at first glance. Can a horror movie really get away with having so many familiar motifs such as its Motel in the Middle of Nowhere complete ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Baltimore Sun
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
There are a few problems with Vacancy, but warning, they’re strange ones, not typical of the genre. It’s a thriller that’s legitimately scary at times, but for the wrong reasons. It’s a horror that’s cast big name stars, but that both helps and ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. ClubThe Onion A.V. Club
There's no small amount of irony in a movie that unmistakably references Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, yet lacks any interest in human psychology. The ruthlessly streamlined thriller Vacancy has a perfectly twisted villain in Frank Whaley, the bespectacled ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)
The reason is simple. Film critics, by and large, hate horror movies. Especially when they’re as formulaic and brainless as 99% of them have been over the past few years. So as a sort of pre-emptive strike, the studios try their darndest to prevent any ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Slant MagazineSlant Magazine
In the swift, vicious Vacancy, soon-to-be-divorced spouses David (Luke Wilson) and Amy (Kate Beckinsale) take a detour off the interstate highway that, after their car breaks down, leads them to a mountainside motel whose primary revenue comes from the ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Slant Magazine
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
After all the hoopla and hype surrounding the release of “Grindhouse,” it is ironic to discover that the makers of the new thriller “Vacancy” actually do a better job of recreating the kind of low-budget junk-film fodder celebrated so ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Comingsoon.netComingsoon.net
Screen Gems and every director they've hired who's made a bad horror film needs to line-up right now and kiss Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez on the lips for reviving the term "grindhouse" as a euphemism for any poorly-made schlock horror film. ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Comingsoon.net
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for PopMattersPopMatters
"I dreamed you were trying to kill me.” When Amy (Kate Beckinsale) wakes, her husband David (Luke Wilson) is driving. They’re on a dark road in the proverbial middle of nowhere, as he’s taken a turn off the interstate while she was asleep. She ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at PopMatters
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for ReelTalk (Adam J. Hakari)ReelTalk (Adam J. Hakari)
Because of their foreboding motel-based settings, comparisons will abound between Psycho and the new Screen Gems thriller Vacancy. But aside from locations, the similarity stops there. Stylistically, Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece was a slow and ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at ReelTalk (Adam J. Hakari)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)
Vacancy, the second feature from Nimrod Antal, who debuted with the well-regarded but under-attended Kontroll, will not stall but may not necessarily propel the director's career. For very easy-to-please horror/thriller fans, the film delivers a few ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Frank's Reel ReviewsFrank's Reel Reviews
We've all stayed in one before. The run-down, sleazy fleabag motel with more roaches than a Cheech and Chong movie but with so few cars in the parking lot, we wonder how such a place could possibly stay in business. Perhaps these motels have an alternate ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at Frank's Reel Reviews
Vacancy (2007) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for KSL Radio (Steve)KSL Radio (Steve)
A late night detour leads to an unimaginable nightmare when an estranged couple’s car breaks down on a remote country road. Finding themselves stranded on a dark and deserted two-lane highway, David Fox (Luke Wilson) and his soon-to-be exwife Amy ...read the complete Vacancy movie review at KSL Radio (Steve)
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Vacancy (2007) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Vacancy (2007) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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