Vacancy (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 14, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kate Beckinsale & Luke Wilson | |
Performer: | Frank Whaley & Ethan Embry | |
Directed by | Nimród Antal | |
Edited by | Armen Minasian | |
Screenwriting by | Mark L. Smith | |
Composition by | Paul Haslinger | |
Produced by | Hal Lieberman | |
Director of Photography: | Andrzej Sekula |
Entertainment Reviews:
The film turns into a regrettable run of the mill horror story. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
3 stars out of 5 -- The lean running time ensures a heart-thumping pace....Smith's snippy dialogue manages to flesh out characterization...
Total Film
[The characters'] squabbling is itchy and funny....Truly scary... -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
[Director Nimrod] Antal does such a good job that you almost overlook the absurdities built into the screenplay.
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Cinefantastique
Lean and mean....[With] perfectly eerie sets, stark lighting, inventive camerawork, and jarring frights...
Film Comment
It's not pretty, but it's certainly vacant.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Once the fight-for-their-lives plot kicks in, unfortunately named director Nimród Antal keeps the action intense and well paced.
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Georgia Straight
Product Description:
This riveting thriller features Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as a couple whose car breaks down, stranding them at a very dangerous hotel. Director Nimrod Antal carefully builds the suspense as the film gradually leads to horror when the hotel turns out to be a snuff film operation, with cameras everywhere and lots of truly horrific videos of past murders (shot in the same room) lying atop the TV set. The couple needs to think fast before they become the next victims.
Beckinsale and Wilson play down their star wattage and get truly involved in their change-of-pace roles, sucking the audience into their situation far deeper than one might think possible. Meticulous use of the tawdry, low-rent motel setting--lots of rotted wood, stained wallpaper, and ugly sofas--provides a realistic sense of space. Intelligently crafted and unfolding practically in real time, VACANCY is edge-of-the-seat all the way. Other strong points are the punchy score from Paul Haslinger, a PSYCHO-ish credit sequence, a creepy Frank Whaley as the hotel clerk, and lots of references to films like TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Thanks to all this care and attention, the scares linger longer than you might expect, so don't watch it alone.
Beckinsale and Wilson play down their star wattage and get truly involved in their change-of-pace roles, sucking the audience into their situation far deeper than one might think possible. Meticulous use of the tawdry, low-rent motel setting--lots of rotted wood, stained wallpaper, and ugly sofas--provides a realistic sense of space. Intelligently crafted and unfolding practically in real time, VACANCY is edge-of-the-seat all the way. Other strong points are the punchy score from Paul Haslinger, a PSYCHO-ish credit sequence, a creepy Frank Whaley as the hotel clerk, and lots of references to films like TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Thanks to all this care and attention, the scares linger longer than you might expect, so don't watch it alone.