One of the best movies on my personal list! It took a moment for me to process what this movie was about because it was pretty confusing. I love the way it connects the dots, the actors are great (especially the villian), the ending is unpredictable and this movie keeps making me to come back (I've watched this movie sixth times).

I read that this was supposedly one of the scariest movies of all time. It's not scary, so much as just creepy and chilling. What's remarkable about it is that it goes well beyond most movies in the thriller or horror genre in exploring themes of existential dread and fate. The antagonist bucks fate once by jumping off a building as a youth. He reasons that it's predestined that he - won't - jump off the building, so off he goes. Likewise, [spoiler] it's predestined that people like him, a family man with two daughters, which is significant - won't - kidnap people and send them to their dusty doom, so, in his warped reasoning, kidnap them, he must[/spoiler]. As a portrait of the inner workings of a madman and sociopath, it's a fascinating movie, and from a directing standpoint, it apparently inspired countless movies that came after it.

Usually I review Dutch movies in Dutch but since there was a lot of French, why not.

Damn, what a surprise. Didn't really know about this movie until internetbelg lend me his copy. Didn't know anything about it as well except for the obvious that somebody vanishes.

First of all it was just fun to see the 80's and a young Gene Bervoets. I loved seeing the point of view from the killer and finding out what happened along with Gene Bervoets. It was mysterious and the ending was brutal. In hindsight it's obvious that it wouldn't end well but it also makes a lot of sense to take the sleeping pill, hoping to find out the truth.

Truly an amazing movie, might give it a higher rating and I'll definitely rewatch it but I'll miss not knowing what's next. I'll also watch the remake but not expecting much.

This Dutch film tells the story of a woman who disappears from a cafe and her lover who searches for her for the next three years.

This is a slow film without any action to speak of. I never got impatient with it because I was interested to see whether the man finds out what happened to the woman. He does.

In what has to be one of the most shocking endings I've ever seen, "The Vanishing" reveals what it's known for: a dark, merciless conclusion.

The original title of the film is Spoorloos.