Looks vacant, all right

"Hey! Get our agents on the phone NOW!"

I've firmly given up on the hope that people will stop making bad horror films, but why do they have to drag bonafide movie stars into the mix? Usually this kind of role is reserved for, I don't know, Josh Duhamel. Or Jay Hernandez. Or, if the producers are really lucky, Cary Elwes. I mean, Kate Beckinsale was in Pearl Harbor! And Click! And... well, never mind. The thing is, horror movies almost never have names you can put above the title, so you see that and think, "Hey, maybe that could be good despite how it looks!" But come on. How often do trailers lie? It's the same movie we've seen 20 times in the last five years alone, even if you'll spend the first 15 minutes wondering "Why did Kate Beckinsale marry this guy anyway?" instead of "I hope the hot chick takes her top off before she gets killed."

Really I'm not even sure where the movie can go because there don't appear to be a lot of cannon fodder ancillary characters who can get killed before our "heroes" face the final big fight, although I'm sure there's an inevitable twist where the local sheriff turns out to be in on the whole thing or some shit like that. Presumably something more than just the basic plot outline has to happen, although if the trailer is anything to go by it's just "The Walls Have Eyes" and two hours of Luke Wilson peering anxiously into ventilation ducts.

Vacancy trailer (Yahoo! Movies)