I love horror films, but they often disappoint me in that they trade true suspense and tension for gore.
An amount of gore is necessary to invoke fear of the villains, and I feel like the director of Vacancy used just enough.
What he is really skilled at is racking up the arm-rest gripping, hand-fidgeting tension.
I was still calming down after the movie had long ended.
If you liked Red Eye or the recent The Hitcher, you’ll definitely like this.
If you didn’t like either of those, try this out anyway.
I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. 
magic
Warning:- this post does contain the films Goofs. May spoil the film.
… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:
Director
Nimród Antal
Writer
Mark L. Smith
Release Date
15 June 2007 (UK)
Genre
Horror | Thriller
Tagline
How can you escape…if they can see everything?
Plot
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they’ll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Goofs
- Continuity: When David peaks out of the tunnel in the manager’s video room, he pushes the latch up with the flashlight in his right hand. In the next shot from outside of the tunnel, the flashlight is not in his hand anymore.
- Factual errors: When the electricity is turned off and on, the TV turns back on and the VCR begins playing again. In reality, they would both remain off until manually turned on again.
- Factual errors: When the highway patrol officer goes to investigate the 911 call, headquarters would be expecting a response back sooner or later. It was at least an hour if not more until 911 was contacted again, at which time the operator was still under the impression the officer had checked the place out. In reality, headquarters would have contacted the officer and upon there being no response, sent another unit or more to investigate why the highway patrol man didn’t respond.
- Continuity: The bathroom window has three panes of glass. When David uses the towel bar to break the window, he breaks the center pane and then the bottom pane. A few seconds later, he appears to smash the bottom pane and then the center pane again.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mason is giving David dimes, the first coin to fall into David’s *empty* hand makes the same metal-on-metal clink as the others.
- Continuity: During earlier scenes in the motel room, David’s shirt continually alternates between having a large patch of moisture on the back and being wrinkled but dry.
- Continuity: Early in the movie, when David looks out the outside door of the room, he leaves the door ajar while checking the banging coming from the door inside the room. When a long shot shows the whole room, the outside door is closed.
- Factual errors: When Amy jumps into the blue BMW she starts it with a screwdriver. It has been proved that no post-1997 BMW is able to be started with anything other than an actual coded key, because of the immobilization system built into their cars.
- Continuity: Early in the movie, just after checking into the motel, the handset is put back on the phone at an angle. After it rings a second time, and he goes to pick it up, the handset is back in the correct position.
- Revealing mistakes: Even if the VCR could be programmed to start right up as soon as power is resupplied to it, it would pick up right where it left off before. In the shots that show the TV as power goes off and back on, when the picture comes back it shows a different scene in the snuff tape, giving the impression that the VCR was running when nothing else was.
- Continuity: When Amy and David climb out of the ’secret’ door and into the little store, David places the cover back over the door and we see that the handle on the door’s cover is closest to the table with the cash register, however when David knocks that table over and the camera pans back to the ’secret’ door the handle is moved to the opposite side.
- Continuity: When David and Amy first go through the tunnel and end up in the office, David is holding the flashlight in his hand when he pushes up on the door. The camera angle changes to inside the office and his hand is empty.
- Continuity: The apple from which Amy was cutting a slice in the car in the beginning of the movie is later discovered “planted” by the bathroom sink after the first blackout. At least 2 or 3 hours have passed between when Amy cut the apple and when she finds it by the sink in the room, but the apple hasn’t browned at all during this time, when it reality it would have browned within minutes of being cut.