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.

Amazing film. Truly a great, suspenseful thriller from the time the banging started to the end of the movie. This has to be the best thriller movie I have ever seen. Every second of the film is sick and has you on the edge of your seat. I liked how the film was not long, and yet still managed to gradually take it's time to develop into a nail-biting thriller. Really, really impressed with this film, and recommend anyone to watch it if you haven't already. By far the best part of the film is when they realize the snuff films, and the lights go out, and it goes on like that for a few seconds. I do not see how the realistic the movie is or the character's choices in the film can impact on how good the film was. A movie is supposed to be for entertainment, whether it's realistic or not doesn't matter as it's a movie, not real life.

VACANCY is one of those thrillers in which a fairly good premise is ruined by a sloppy execution. It begins predictably enough, with a bickering couple whose car breaks down forced to stay at a run-down motel managed by a creepy, nerdish guy. Soon enough there's a twist when they stick on a videotape and realise that snuff films have been made right in the room they're in and they're next on the list.So far, so good. The set-up and look of the film is very familiar, but I could overlook that. There were a few chilling vibes a la HOSTEL, especially during the videotape playback. Not a great deal of atmosphere, but a little suspense. Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale were a couple of sympathetic leads, so I was looking forward to some cat-and-mouse hijinks. But then the film falls apart to become an endless chase, and reality goes out of the window. Our heroes crawl through a network of underground tunnels, are chased by masked, boiler suit-wearing killers modelling themselves on Michael Myers, escape death numerous times...and I just stopped caring at that point. It's ludicrous, it really is, and would have worked better as a nightmare sequence than a film supposedly set in the real world.It reminded me of FLIGHTPLAN, in that there's no way the villains would have gone to this much elaboration and trouble to commit their crime. The film never picks up after then either. The ending is highly predictable as is the intervention of a sole sheriff character. In the end, this is a bore – or indeed a chore – to watch. Not the worst I've seen, but getting pretty close in places.

I didn't have high expectations for Nimród Antal's "Vacancy", so I wasn't disappointed. Basically, the message that all moviegoers should gleam from movies set in motels is to be suspicious (look what happened to Marion Crane). Hell, if "1408" - based on a Stephen King book - is any indication, then not even regular hotels are safe.Basically, the movie delivers what it promises. If you expect a typical horror flick then you'll get your prize. I guess that from now on, I'll call this movie the horror flick starring the woman from "Cold Comfort Farm" (about an English socialite who meets her eccentric rural relatives) and the man from "Idiocracy" (about a future United States populated entirely by stupid people).