Review #214: The Vanishing (1988)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #69: The Vanishing (1988) The Vanishing is a Dutch-language film about Rex, a man, whose girlfriend, Saskia, disappears while the two are driving through France and he spends the next three years obsessing over her disappearance. The movie is also about Raymond, the man who abducted Saskia, and when the two finally come face-to-face, Rex has to learn about his enemy in order to find out what happened to the woman he loved. This is... a strange film, and I'm not entirely sure whether I liked it or not. (If I had known it was going to be such a bummer of a film I probably would have watched it sooner to get it out of the way, but c'est la vie.) It's told in a very strange manner, jumping forward and backward through time at various points (and sometimes into dreams) with very little fanfare, and I don't know if the version I was watching was poorly translated, but certain parts of t...