This time, young couple Jessica (Agnes Brucker from Murder by Numbers) and Caleb (Trevor Wright) along with their friend Tanner (Arjay Smith) are heading back to Jessica's parents' place to talk about the impending marriage (and pregnancy). But when the trio have to pull over in the middle of the night, they find themselves in a terrible situation. You see, a few weeks before the heroes of the show appear, the managers of the Meadow View Inn took their homemade porno system and made a few additions.
Up to this point, Gordon (David Moscow) was content with using the video cameras hidden in the inn's suites as a way to make cheap voyeuristic porno movies to be sold by a local trucker. But when a mysterious man, simply named Smith (Scott G. Anderson), kills a hooker on tape, Gordon and the rest of the staff decide on a bloody new market to break into.
Now, the trio of kids find themselves being tormented and hunted by the motel's employees (as well as the sadistic Smith), and since this is the murderous group's first attempt, they aren't nearly as smooth and refined as they will be in the original movie, but that isn't to say they aren't dangerous in their own right.
Quite frankly, I felt like this movie with unnecessary. I know there is, for some reason, the need in horror films to keep expanding upon a good movie until it is run in the ground, but quite frankly, Vacancy was so good that it would have been hard to top it at all, and this attempt just doesn't do the original film justice. The first one did a great job building up suspense and making you truly care about the characters and if they survive (especially since you learn about their troubled marriage), but here the characters just feel like the standard stupid teens that show up in every other horror movie. It just isn't worth it, even if (especially if) you liked the first one.
