Sluizer's direction is seamless throughout, effortlessly juggling domesticity and damnation as it ploughs inexorably towards an appaling dénouement.
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01/26/06
The Vanishing (1988)
100 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 31 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
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 through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
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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.
05/20/03
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