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They could of done better with the cat they had, a shame

I liked the cover of this Blu Ray and by getting it extremely cheap I gave my pocket a go. A go for two reasons one already know, the second because Michael Madsen was in it and Jeff Fahey. But what a let down on the part of Madsen. He's just in it for the money, what a bad acting he gave here. On part of Jeff I liked him, he got a kind of look I like. I liked him in Machete (2010) as Michael Booth just before this flick was made.

The story isn't really original but the fact that it's low on gore and also low on red stuff this fails completely. There are killings going on but nothing is shown. All off-camera. Just one shot involves a bit of red stuff when we look in room 5 we do see a girl in blood. But let that be all we do see for a horror geek. Still you want to know how it ends but even that I didn't like. Moving back to Carter (Madsen) and seeing him as a tough guy just didn't work.

People warned me that it looked like Vacancy (2007) and somehow it does or it also looks like a house being invaded. But this time you been trapped without terror.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

While driving at night in a lonely road, the car of the estranged couple Don (David James Elliott) and Nancy (Heather Marsden) is hit twice by another car in the middle of nowhere. Nancy asks for help and the unpleasant sheriff Cleveland (Jeff Fahey) offers to take them to the nearby Motel Royal Vista and wait until the morning, when their car would be towed. .

When the couple arrives in the low-budget and foxy motel, they are attended by a weird receptionist. They are disturbed by noises and screams inside the next door room and Don asks them to keep quieter since his wife and he are tired and need to rest. But sooner they realize that they are part of a sick and deadly game, and their lives are threatened by sickos led by Cleveland and his partner Carter (Michael Madsen).

"Terror Trap" is a lame rip-off of "Vacancy", with terrible story, characters and acting. The plot has several holes and the conclusion is absurd and apparently with no consequences to the creepy and sadistic participants and the victims of the sick game. Nancy is one of the most detestable and annoying characters I have ever seen, especially considering that she is leading lady of the story. I was cheering for her to be killed and vanish. Michael Madsen is a one-dimensional actor, repeating his performance in "Reservoir Dogs" is many low-budget movies. My advice: better off watching "Vacancy" again than spending time with "Terror Trap". My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): "Não Há Vagas" ("No Vacancy")

When i decided to include this movie into my 2025 fall watch list, i knew it would likely be one of the weaker entries. Movie has a 3 something out of 10 on IMDB after all. But i am usually less demanding than the general audience and i was just curious to see "how bad" it could be. If anything maybe i would get a laugh out of it. I include movies like this as "filler" for my list. Stuff i am gonna watch in the afternoon when its raining to pass time or such.

But sadly this not a movie you can put in the "so bad its good" kind of territory. First yes the reviews are right, its a rip-off of Vacancy, wich in itself was not a movie i particulary liked. But whatever, i never mind a clone of something if its fun and done decent.

Then you got the main characters wich the guy is fine, but the woman is insufferable, at least at the start, so you really don't care much for her. One character that had some potential is completely wasted.

Otherwise the movie play on the trope of what you would expect and therefore is very predictable. Yet in my opinion, its really far from the biggest problem.

What is then? Well the movie does not make its protagonists much likable and its very oddly filmed. Every once in a while it will switch to some random snuff scene so it can have its "bodycount" but the issue is the tension is never built, you simply don't know anything about these characters, so don't really care, and on top of that its not even much bloody or gory, as the vast majority seem to happen offscreen.

What happen to the main characters is uninspired, amateurly shot for the most part, and overall you just get a very blend movie that run under 90 minutes but gives the impression that half of it is just time filler until the "action" finally start. When it does, its still rather boring.

This movie represent very well the late 2000s and 2010s direct to dvd schlock era. Very low budget, but a rather cool name (even if not original) and interesting cover (the one with the masks) that stand out. The kind of movie you would see at the video store and be like "oh why not, lets see" but 9 times out of 10 it end up being ..well what this movie was.

Hostel meets Vacancy in this cheap little knock-off. A couple's car is run off the road and a creepy town sheriff leaves them at a motel. This motel is actually a place where snuff videos are made and people come and sit and watch horrific acts being performed on the unsuspecting visitors. The film doesn't bog itself down with satire concerning business and violence, though it is mentioned. The big problem is that the horrible acts start in the middle of an argument between the protagonists. This means we're never truly on their side, though their actions do go some-ways to expressing their feelings for each other. Madsen just sits in a room for an easy cheque and Fahey overdoes creepy without ever being threatening. He just shouts. It isn't completely awful, but it's never scary or tense. However, the end is completely head scratching as it contains a scene that just doesn't add up to anything.