New York Times, 01/25/1991, p.C8, "...[Sluizer] builds a disturbing horror story....Grim fascination to the very end..."
Rolling Stone, 03/21/1991, p.84, "...[A] provocative and haunting thriller....A small gem..."
Los Angeles Times, 10/10/1990, p.F3, "...THE VANISHING succeeds the old-fashioned way: by hooking us on characters and undercurrents, seducing us into a clean, logical nightmare..."
George Sluizer directed an English-language, American-produced version of this film in 1993, starring Jeff Bridges.
Shown at the Montreal World Film Festival August 29, 1988.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Letterboxed - 1.66
Single Side - Dual Layer - RSDL
Audio:
Mono - French/Dutch
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.