As everybody knows, a house has many functions, the original one probably being shelter against a possibly violent environment. However, never ever has it been shown so terrificly how a house can turn into a trap, offering the whole series of imaginable brutality instead of protection against them as in Antal Nimrod's "Vacancy". That the American-Hungarian film director is a specialist of tunnels, one has seen galore in his biggest success "Kontroll" (2003) which is settled wholly in the Budapestan Metro underground, with tunnels, corridors, hallways, gangways, etc. Interestingly, also the Motel in "Vacany" is undermined with a tunnel, connection all strategically important positions for the "film makers".
Another interesting question is why exactly motels are recurrently chosen for the Lieu De Crime, starting, as also everybody knows, with Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960). A possible answer is that unlike regular houses, the rooms of motels are taken for a short-time by strangers: neither their neighbors in the other rooms nor the proprietor knows them, and in the place where they stay overnight, they are mostly strangers, while in the house where they normally live, their disappearance would be noticed quickly. Moreover, unlike hotels, where more people meet inside of the building, the single houses which form a motel are often isolated and as 1-level-unities spread over a wide field where it is much more difficult to react to upcoming danger than staying in a hotel-room and just go into the hallway in order to seek help. Originally created possibly for maximal privacy and utmost liberty, away from possible neighbors whom one could disturb or who could disturb oneself, motels therefore easily turn out to be more dangerous traps than houses are by their very nature.
Another interesting question is why exactly motels are recurrently chosen for the Lieu De Crime, starting, as also everybody knows, with Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960). A possible answer is that unlike regular houses, the rooms of motels are taken for a short-time by strangers: neither their neighbors in the other rooms nor the proprietor knows them, and in the place where they stay overnight, they are mostly strangers, while in the house where they normally live, their disappearance would be noticed quickly. Moreover, unlike hotels, where more people meet inside of the building, the single houses which form a motel are often isolated and as 1-level-unities spread over a wide field where it is much more difficult to react to upcoming danger than staying in a hotel-room and just go into the hallway in order to seek help. Originally created possibly for maximal privacy and utmost liberty, away from possible neighbors whom one could disturb or who could disturb oneself, motels therefore easily turn out to be more dangerous traps than houses are by their very nature.