Vacancy 2: The First Cut is a 2009 American direct-to-video slasher directed by Eric Bross, starring Agnes Bruckner, Trevor Wright, David Moscow, and Gwendoline Yeo. It is the prequel to 2007's Vacancy. Set three years before the first film, the action takes place in and around the Meadow View Inn, a small roadside motel in rural North Carolina. It opens with newlyweds driving and the bride wants to have sex in the car, which makes the groom stop. They are then stopped by a man, whose property they are on. The manager, Gordon , oversees an operation of using cameras within the motel to... videotape the newlyweds having oral sex. Later, a serial killer , who checks into the motel as Smith brutally murders a woman he brought with him in one of the motel rooms. The horrified staff see the whole crime on videotape and then subdue the man. They, however, do not know what to do with him as they will endanger their operation if they call the police. Smith manages to convince Gordon and his staff to hire him to torture and murder the motel guests on videotape and then sell them as snuff films.
more
| Release date: | January 20, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Eric Bross |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 86 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal Lieberman |
| Music by: | Paul Haslinger, Jerome Dillon |
| Estimated budget: | $5,000,000 |