Worthy of Hitchcock.
The Vanishing (1988)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:33
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man... Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the location of his lost loved one, their confrontation explodes. [More]
Starring: Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Starring: Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Director: George Sluizer
Director: George Sluizer
Producer: Anne Lordon, George Sluizer
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Sluizer's direction is seamless throughout, effortlessly juggling domesticity and damnation as it ploughs inexorably towards an appaling dénouement.
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