Vacancy

When David peeks out of the tunnel in Mason's video room, he pushes the latch up with the flashlight in his right hand.

In the next shot from outside of the tunnel, the flashlight is not in his hand anymore.

When the electricity is turned off and on, the TV turns back on and the VCR begins playing again.

In reality, they would both remain off until manually turned on again.

Even if they could be programmed to start right up as soon as power is resupplied, the video would pick up right where it left off before.

In the shots that show the TV as power goes off and back on, when the picture comes back it shows a different scene in the snuff tape, giving the impression that the VCR was running when nothing else was.

The bathroom window has three panes of glass.

When David uses the towel bar to break the window, he breaks the center pane and then the bottom pane.

A few seconds later, he appears to smash the bottom pane and then the center pane again.

When Mason is giving David dimes, the first coin to fall into David's *empty* hand makes the same metal-on-metal clink as the others.

During earlier scenes in the motel room, David's shirt continually alternates between having a large patch of moisture on the back and being wrinkled but dry.

Early in the movie, when David looks out the outside door of the room, he leaves the door ajar while checking the banging coming from the door inside the room.

When a long shot shows the whole room, the outside door is closed.

When David and Amy first go through the tunnel and end up in the office, David is holding the flashlight in his hand when he pushes up on the door.

The camera angle changes to inside the office and his hand is empty.

When Amy jumps into the blue BMW she starts it with a screwdriver.

It has been proved that no post-1997 BMW is able to be started with anything other than an actual coded key, because of the immobilization system built into their cars.

Early in the movie, just after checking into the motel, the handset is put back on the phone at an angle.

After it rings a second time, and he goes to pick it up, the handset is back in the correct position.

When Amy and David climb out of the 'secret' door and into the little store, David places the cover back over the door and we see that the handle on the door's cover is closest to the table with the cash register, however when David knocks that table over and the camera pans back to the 'secret' door the handle is moved to the opposite side.

When David ejects the first tape from the VCR, it is a different tape than the one he put in.

The tape he then puts in is the same one he put in the first time.

The masked man we see in the room for a split second (the one who planted the apple) had gained entry via the hatch in the bathroom floor which was covered by a rug.

If he left the room the same way, the rug wouldn't be laying nicely on the floor as there was no way he could rearrange it.

When David and Amy finally discover the trap door, the rug is flat and arranged nicely.

When the highway patrol officer goes to investigate the 911 call, headquarters would be expecting a response back sooner or later.

It was at least an hour if not more until 911 was contacted again, at which time the operator was still under the impression the officer had checked the place out.

In reality, headquarters would have contacted the officer and upon there being no response, sent another unit or more to investigate why the highway patrol man didn't respond.

Some viewers consider this procedural discrepancy to be a clue that someone in the police is in on it.

The apple from which Amy was cutting a slice in the car in the beginning of the movie is later discovered "planted" by the bathroom sink after the first blackout.

At least 2 or 3 hours have passed between when Amy cut the apple and when she finds it by the sink in the room, but the apple hasn't browned at all during this time, when it reality it would have browned within minutes of being cut.

In one of the snuff films it is shown that the killers were banging a girl's head against the lights hanging directly above the bed.

But in the room in which Amy and David are staying the lights are hanging by the side of the bed.

It's possible that this was filmed in one of the other rooms, however.

While David is watching the second tape, Amy is behind him, with her hair down and holding her head between her hands.

But she actually puts her hair down in one of the next shots.