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Vacancy

(Screen Gems/Sony, 2007) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 14 August 2007 (Sony)

[20 April 2007]

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

The movie is 80 minutes of mostly entertaining tension, punctuated by violence engineered by a creep using criminally outdated technology.

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13.Aug.07

Nimròd Antal’s Vacancy takes us back to the days of suspense -- when the chase was exhilarating on its own – not just the means to a morbid end.

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