It’s clear from the opening seconds of Vacancy that warring, nearly divorced couple David and Amy Fox (Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale) haven’t seen the latest slew of stalk’n’torture flicks. Otherwise, they’d be panicking as soon as their car conks out at night in a remote forest. With no mobile signal (natch) to call the AA, they decide to check into the nearby skanky motel run by a manager (Frank Whaley in Ned Flanders get-up) so creepily nice that they ignore the screams emanating from his TV. Maybe they missed Hostel, House Of Wax, Them, Saw and heck, even Psycho, because they only fret when they find videotapes of brutal murders taking place in the very room they’ve rented. Meanwhile, hidden CCTV cameras eye their every move…
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