Vacancy 2: The First Cut

Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008) is an American horror prequel you can watch online on iFILM. Director Eric Bross goes back before the events of the original to show how the Meadow View Inn became a slaughterhouse — and who put the cameras in the walls.

Three friends check in for the night: Caleb, his girlfriend Jessica, and their wisecracking buddy Tanner. The motel looks rough but bearable. Then the recording light blinks on. Agnes Bruckner plays the one who senses something wrong just a beat before everyone else, and that beat is the film's tightest tension. The snuff-film setup from the first Vacancy is here from the opening, with less misdirection and more immediate dread. It won't win awards — it knows what it is. Stream Vacancy 2: The First Cut online on iFILM.