Vacancy 2: The First Cut
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Well hello UHM, I'm back with you all, and yet I have another review. This time around it is not an 90's or 80's film, it is something of this time, Vacancy 2
For the many of you who have seen this, you know how this film is, for those of you who haven't, let me explain. Like "Punkinhead 2: Blood Wings" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning", Vancancy 2: The First Cut, takes that same route and explains how things begin to happen after the first film has been made, which is completely a waste when things should have been FULLY explained in the first from the get go. But who can complain, because I actually kind of enjoyed this film.
This sequel tells the story of how Mr. Smith got started in this game of killing. We follow a group of men at a hotel, two who work there and one who's a trucker, as they check guest into a room where there are hidden camera's within the walls and ceiling. Not only are these men peeping tom's but they sell what they record. With their luck, they check a guest in, which happens to be Mr. Smith. Hoping to see him fuck the brains out of another woman, he ends up killing her! Now the men start panicking as they try to figure out what they are going to do about the man, for the simple fact that they cannot call the sheriff, due to their circumstances of them peeping at other guest.
Eventually the men beat him up and tie him to a chair in another room. There in that room, Mr. Smith convinces the men that people are "into" seeing other people being killed. That's when the three men make there minds up to kill the next guest that come into the hotel, hoping to make a profit off of it.
Now this is when our leads come in, consisting of Caleb and his Fiancee Jessica, who are going to see her parents, who don't like Caleb too much. Now if that isn't worse enough, Caleb has brought along his sarcastic friend Tanner, who supplies most of the comedy relief in the film. Wanting to get some rest and freshen up, they stop at the hotel, where Mr. Smith and the others are. So they check into the room and everything seems to be fine, until Tanner, who snuck into the other room, turns on the television and sees Jessica and Caleb about to get it on. Then that's when things start picking up.
I know that sounds like a lot, and it really is, but I have to keep you all informed. Now I do have a couple of problems with this film, which is the killer himself, Mr. Smith. In a way he pisses you off, but you do realize that he is a killer. He's very brutal, killing anybody that stands in the way of him killing, even the elderly for that matter.
The characters in this film are decent, we do get good characterization and some good acting, especially from Mr. Smith, because of the fact that he does make you mad. But what makes me more agitated than anything is seeing these characters do the silliest things, like watching someone die and still trying to save them, hitting the killer with the weapon one time then dropping it by them so that the killer can get it and kill them with it, and the worse of them all, MISSING EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO KILL THE KILLER! Do these guys have any sense?
Other than that the suspense was good and we don't get any really special kills, well except for this one where a man's head gets pinned to a wall full of nails, but really the first is better than this when it comes down to suspense and brutality. Then again, in some parts it gets very brutal, but nothing spectacular. The atmosphere was great, kind of dark.
Now I would have given this movie a 7, but due to the fact that it seemed too much like STRANGERS and TCM, with them running all into the woods, going into houses that are in the middle of nowhere, and wearing sheets with eye holes in them, which are definite references to those films. Then I did want a little more suspense from the film and some gore, but overall it did keep my interest, so I give it a 6, for giving us a nice little tale of how this all turned out.
It's worth a rent, but go in with an open mind and don't expect a lot of gore or anything else for that matter.
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