Movies like Vacancy
If Vacancy's mix of remoteness, motel and snuff stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Vacancy's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Till Death
2021 · Directed by S.K. Dale · 89 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: trapped, isolated · Also horror and thriller
After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted…
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The Invitation
2016 · Directed by Karyn Kusama · 100 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: deception, psychological thriller · Also thriller and horror
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that…
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The Shining
1980 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller · Also horror and thriller
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.
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Memento
2000 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 113 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: motel, psychological thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term…
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The Truman Show
1998 · Directed by Peter Weir · 103 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: deception, hidden camera
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
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Sinister
2012 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: snuff · Also horror and thriller
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit.
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Hush
2016 · Directed by Mike Flanagan · 82 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: trapped · Also horror and thriller
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
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Psycho II
1983 · Directed by Richard Franklin · 113 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: motel · Also horror and thriller
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
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Near Dark
1987 · Directed by Kathryn Bigelow · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: motel
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
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The Call
2013 · Directed by Brad Anderson · 96 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue.
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Kalifornia
1993 · Directed by Dominic Sena · 118 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: motel
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
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Secret Window
2004 · Directed by David Koepp · 96 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: motel · From the same decade (2000s)
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea.