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The Vanishing
Directed by
George Sluizer
Not Rated
1988
1h 46m
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7.7
96%
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Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
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Cast of The Vanishing
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Raymond Lemorne
Gene Bervoets
Rex Hofman
Johanna ter Steege
Saskia Wagter
Gwen Eckhaus
Lieneke
Pierre Forget
Farmer Laurent
Bernadette Le Saché
Simone Lemorne
Tania Latarjet
Denise Lemorne
Lucille Glenn
Gabrielle Lemorne
Roger Souza
Manager (uncredited)
Caroline Appéré
Cashier (uncredited)
Didier Rousset
TV Journalist (uncredited)
The Vanishing Ratings & Reviews
ChristyLemire.com
Christy Lemire
It's an elegant, riveting piece of filmmaking.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie advances in a tantalizing fashion, supplying information obliquely, suggesting as much as it tells, and everything leads up to a climax that is as horrifying as it is probably inevitable.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
It's a film that functions on curiosity rather than real interest (given the fact that the characters are thinly drawn and largely unsympathetic), yet in the end punishes the audience for wanting to have its questions answered.
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
Sluizer adapted the film, but he takes a more non-linear approach than the book, which heightens the story at strategic moments to build suspense.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Worthy of Hitchcock.
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
The Vanishing is about the power of the mind to propel its subjects along unbelievable trajectories, into risks beyond knowing, in a quest for the most disturbing of knowledge.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
The explanation is so darkly compelling-and ultimately so chilling-that The Vanishing has earned its reputation as one of the scariest non-horror movies ever made.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] George Sluizer's spellbinding adaptation of Tim Krabb's horror novella "The Golden Egg" is such an expertly layered suspense thriller than it serves as a textbook archetype of the genre.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Sluizer isn't among the more original stylists, but the literalness of his direction suffices to evoke the horrific and monstrous possibilities lurking behind the façades of ordinary life.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Wilmington
The appalling, horrific climax of The Vanishing will haunt your mind long after this film is over.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Sluizer, whose direction has the spooky precision of nonfiction crime writing and whose matter-of-factness makes the characters seem quite real, builds a disturbing horror story from seemingly modest beginnings.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
A brilliantly crafted intellectual thriller with a spring like a trap. It carries you down with it.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Director George Sluizer unfolds his story with non-hysterical -- but nonetheless unnerving -- precision. Vanishing is refreshingly free of manipulative scenes involving running bath water, jagged-edge cutlery and bunnies in the saucepan.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
..a wonderful thriller which deserves to find a new audience..
Lawrence Journal-World
Jon Niccum
A masterpiece of psychological horror
TV Guide
Through some fiendish alchemy, The Vanishing manages to scare people out of their wits more effectively than a legion of better-known horror films.
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