Review of Vacancy

Vacancy (2007)
7/10
Who would stay in a motel like this?
4 October 2022
Clearly the married couple in this film have never watched Hitchcocks 'Psycho' or they would never have stayed at this motel. Never check in to an extremely remote and isolated motel when there are no other guests and the manager is a weirdo. Having said that, this is a reasonably entertaining low budget movie with only a handful of significant characters. I found this on Amazon Prime and the fact that it starred Kate Beckinsale persuaded me to watch. I don't know how familiar US viewers are with her, but here in the UK she is a well known and popular actress from an acting family. Sadly her very popular father, Richard, died very young.

Anyway, travellers arriving at remote hotels with dodgy staff late at night is hardly groundbreaking, but being the location for snuff movies may be less common. So, unsurprisingly, when the couple discover this little fact they are keen to leave. How they make there escape, or not, takes up most of the film. A decent effort and not too much gore, so those who dislike gorefests should not be put off.
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