As I mentioned yesterday I rented the movie Vacancy this past weekend. I was really looking forward to seeing it when it came out in the theatres, and then I just never got around to it, so the renting it came in handy.

I decided to watch it in the pitch dark, which is something that I never do when watching movies at my place, and oh boy, was I frightened, and I’m dead serious.Â
To be fair, I don’t watch horror movies often because I tend to get scared very easily by them, and so while the average horror fan might have thought that Vacancy was stealing their life away from them, I found it to be enthralling, and was on the edge of my seat ready to shit my pants scared.Â
Sure the first 20 minutes started of slow to the point that I wanted to pull an Elvis and shoot the television, but then the creepy Rick Moranistype of guy shows up working at the hotel, and I got an hour worth of fright.

Basically the plot of the movie is that two city folk are lost in the back country, their car breaks down, and people are trying to murder them on film inside of a creepy hotel, which just so happens to be one of my biggest fears when leaving the city, and the biggest reason why I chose to avoid many places in this country.Â
I’m a city boy, and being out in the middle of nowhere kind of freaks me out, and it indeed scares me. For me it is the fact that in the middle of nowhere if I were to be attacked nobody would hear my death screams, but at least in the city people would be more likely to hear them. Not to say that I would be safer in the city or the middle of nowhere, but the thought of just “disappearing” on a road trip never to be found again bugs the crap out of my fear factor.
So basically yeah, I have to give Vacancy a five out of five scary stars, especially since I had nightmares for the next three straight nights. Once again, I am all too serious on this part.