Vanishing On 7th Street (2010)

All Critics (51) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (25) | DVD (2)

Prediction: Vanishing on 7th St. will vanish from theaters very quickly.

March 4, 2011 Full Review

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Brad Anderson's supernatural thriller is stacked to keep us guessing. Initially, this makes it watchably atmospheric. But the inconclusive hints lead to the sense that he's withholding too much.

February 25, 2011 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Anderson spends most of his energy creating a mood - making "Vanishing" more cerebral than white-knuckle, though a few more shrieks (mine) might have been nice.

February 24, 2011 Full Review

Betsy Sharkey

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

This is The Twilight Zone as written by Jean Paul Sartre. What audacity! What vision! And, alas, what a failure.

February 24, 2011 Full Review

Tirdad Derakhshani

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Anderson does a lot with very little - a wavering light, a patch of darkness - and Jaswinski's script tries to break up the stage-bound monotony with a few well-timed (if not particularly informative) flashbacks.

February 18, 2011 Full Review

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Brad Anderson's creepily effective low-budget thriller may not have a punch line worthy of your typical "Twilight Zone" episode, but it otherwise gets the job done in under an hour and a half with a good cast.

February 18, 2011 Full Review

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Top Critic

The film borrows from too many sources, and almost always comes up short, lacking depth, character or reason.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

it's to Anderson's credit that despite a slight script, this film keeps you on your toes almost right to the end.

January 4, 2012 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

A creepy, high quality B movie

June 30, 2011 Full Review

Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

An interesting little sci-fi/horror hybrid that urges the viewer to fear the dark, skillfully executed with a healthy amount of scares and inviting confusion.

May 24, 2011 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Clothes minus their bodies are strewn around a darkened world in a bizarre wardrobe malfunction, and kind of the opposite of airport body scanning. Though why none of these highly resourceful characters thought night vision goggles, is anybody's guess.

March 18, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Prairie Miller

Purple Revolver

The thrill goes out of writer Anthony Jaswinski's Twilight Zone-style story long before the closing credits.

March 15, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

It doesn't really progress beyond what happens in the first forty minutes.

March 7, 2011 Full Review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Ebert Presents At The Movies

Probably it would have made a much better "Twilight Zone" episode at one-third of the length, but there's enough good, solid genre work here to make it worthwhile.

February 28, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Vanishing on 7th Street feels like a classic in the making until we get to know the main characters.

February 21, 2011 Full Review

Christian Toto

What Would Toto Watch?

It's a stylish thriller that falls apart under any serious scrutiny, the lack of explanation equally frustrating and compelling at the same time

February 20, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

A slight yet haunting thriller that replaces easy answers with the pervasive sense of unknowable, evil forces at work.

February 19, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Robert Levin

Film School Rejects

The promise of its opening wears off as the film wears on.

February 19, 2011 Full Review

Tim Cogshell

Boxoffice Magazine

'I exist!' is the clarion call of the characters in Vanishing on 7th Street, just before they're vanquished into a deadly netherworld of shadows. After you've seen this tedious thriller you may wish the film didn't exist at all.

February 18, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Staci Layne Wilson

Horror.com

Those streets full of empty clothes hold a special kind of terror. More's the pity that the film can't do anything with them.

February 18, 2011 Full Review

Rob Vaux

Mania.com

• 1. Rosemary: Why is this one working and the others don't?
  2. Luke: It's a Chevy.
  – Submitted by Frances H (4 months ago)
• 1. Paul: We're the last spin on the reel before it stops for good.
  – Submitted by Frances H (4 months ago)
• 1. Patient: [facing the fourth wall] You'll want your money back.
  – Submitted by Chris W (18 months ago)
• 1. James: I exist.
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
• 1. Luke: I'm here because I will myself to exist.
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)

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