Product Description
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A suspenseful, classic thriller, in the tradition of
Alfred Hitchcock, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, that
will keep you on the edge of your seat and your heart pounding!
When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car
breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend
the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain
them... until they discover that the low-budget slasher videos
they find in their room were all filmed in the very room they're
sitting in. With hidden cameras now ed at them... trapping
them in rooms, crawlspaces, underground tunnels... and filming
their every move, David and Amy must struggle to get out alive
before whomever is watching them can finish their latest
masterpiece.
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A confined setting is a useful tool for thriller-makers, and
Vacancy is definitely boxed in: a rundown motel way, way off the
Interstate, the kind of place where unsuspecting movie characters
go to get stabbed to death in the shower. If Vacancy doesn't
quite live up to its Hitchcockian forbears, at least it provides
80 minutes of well-designed mayhem. You know somebody's paying
attention just from the opening credits, a clever vortex with
pounding music by Paul Haslinger. Then we meet unhappy couple
Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, driving along in the dark and
forced to stay at the Pinewood Motel after a car breakdown.
There's a night man (Frank Whaley, decadent) in the tradition of
Dennis Weaver's Touch of Evil gargoyle, but the real mess of
trouble is waiting in room number 4. Director Nimrod Antal, who
scored a stylish international hit with the Hungarian thriller
Kontroll, squeezes maximum juice out of the Route 66 atmosphere
of the motel, although the movie doesn't get under your skin the
way Kontroll did. Wilson and Beckinsale are a little too
marquee-namish for this kind of heavy-breathing work, and the
script doesn't give them much to play with. But hey, it's not
that kind of movie. Where it really belongs is on the top half of
a drive-in double bill, or maybe as a nightmare-scenario TV movie
from the Seventies. Either way, it works. --Robert Horton
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