Slasher movie alert! The credits trickle down like drops of blood and early in the film, Kate Beckinsale cuts her finger accidentally- a silent warning that only more blood is about to spill. Vacancy opens to a couple that is squabbling constantly and fast headed for divorcia lane. And nature’s way of getting them to behave is by putting them up in a seedy motel manned by a psycho, after their car breaks down on a highway in Timbaktoo in the middle of the night.
Their worry about catching Tetanus in this filthy pitstop is soon dominated by larger concerns... staying alive!
They discover that they are trapped in a set for snuff movies and apart from the one playing on their VCR, they are part of one! Bickering certainly won’t help now.
Nimrod Antal has cleverly cast two pretty people in the movie to grab eyeballs, which works. You don’t want anything bad happening to these nice folks. But no one said anything about not wanting shocks. The tension is not entirely absent, but... well!
Whaley looks disturbing no doubt, but he’s nowhere near Norman Bates. In the end, it boils down to whether the pair makes it out of this hell or not?
And if you are having trouble figuring that one out, you might not mind spending your precious time or money on this nothing great but unprolonged film.
The good news is that this ‘splatter flick’ is surprisingly low on the gore-o-meter.