Vacancy

Vacancy (2007) is a tight horror thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Nimród Antal for Screen Gems. Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson play Amy and David Fox — a couple whose car breaks down on an empty stretch of highway at night. The nearest shelter is a rundown roadside motel with a very attentive desk clerk.

Browsing the VHS tapes left in the room, they quickly realize the grainy footage was shot in the exact room they're standing in. Hidden cameras cover every corner; the motel manager Mason, played by Frank Whaley, has clearly been watching from the start. Every exit is monitored. Every plan to run gets picked up on a screen somewhere.

Shot on a $19 million budget, the film earns its scares through stripped-down craft: a handful of locations, no padding, and a genuinely claustrophobic sense that the walls are closing in. Stream Vacancy (2007) online on iFILM.