One of the most horrifying movies out there. It has no blood, no gore, and yet its terrifying to think there are people out there like this, who look normal on the outside and are monsters beyond recognition. Evil in its banality. Very recommended
True. Their NORMALITY is scary. We can all be scared and hence careful around "scary" people. But by nature, a little bit of complacency comes itself when NORMAL people are around.
yes, very true: complacency and the natural tendency to make small compromises can easily result in tunnel vision, especially in one's own delusions with no outside reference point. Whereas the significance of tragedy is limitless in its boundaries, bad things happen in mere moments and are rarely as clear as a Mordor vs the Shire type of scale.
@@havardhullen889 I think you could argue that this movie does indeed express the banality of evil; Raymond is a boring person, his methods are dull and meticulous and his motives, far from being grand and mysterious like many fictional villains, really come down to petty self-indulgence. It is his victim, Saskia, and her absence, that create the tragedy and the obsession. On his own, Raymond is just a chemistry teacher.
@@kforcer I agree to some extent. I think the success of the film rests on that actor's brilliant portrayal. He is not a cartoon villain, just a psychopath who gives in to his urge to dominate and kill. The terrifying part is how it shows the indiscriminate nature and meaningless of such an endeavour to the person perpetuating it. What pushes the film into genius territory for me is how it willingly plays with tonal shifts like the comic way he's seen getting ready to commit the crime. It doesn't make the killer sympathetic but it just presents a person who is capable of the most diabolical acts and that's the chilling part.
A word of caution - this is pretty much the only film I've seen where I'd say it's imperative to not know the ending before watching. Avoid spoilers if you can and just watch it. It's one of the most haunting films I've ever seen.
This film is so terrifying, because what he did to Saskia, could happen in real life. One of the worst things to see was how he carefully planned everything out, using his family as a test. He tested the sounds of females screaming in his yard to see if neighbors would hear them. If the neighbors couldn't hear his family screaming, they likely wouldn't be able to hear his victim scream later.
Everyone is calling Raymond a sociopath, but I don't think he is. He's way scarier than that. Sociopaths are really just unstable losers with no impulse control who commit petty crimes. Raymond is 100% in control of his actions which he carefully plans, he may even be capable of love and empathy, but CHOOSES to commit horrific acts, just to see how it feels... It connects us to something very dark that may exist in all of us, but we dare not explore. But Raymond did... Raymond might even never kill again after the events of the movie and resume his unremarkable life, cherishing the murders as creepy memories. I think the idea that this otherwise normal person is capable of such cold murders is way scarier than the idea of a "sociopath", most of which are pretty easy to spot.
Yeah, it's a little confusing because Raymond refers to himself as a sociopath to Rex while they're in the car together. I agree with you though, he's clearly no sociopath. If anything he's a psychopath.
He doesn't do it just to see how it feels. The central ideas of his behavior are tied to his freedom from fate and are presented in the 2 scenes of his monologue in the car. The first one shows his extreme need of personal freedom, thinking "I'm sitting here on the balcony, and living by the standards of normalcy (which he, wrongly imo, equates to destiny) I shouldn't jump." But he can't stand that constraint, so he jumps, even though he knows it will hurt. In the second scene where he rescues the little girl, an even darker idea, really just an extension of the first one, arises: if I do not know of myself that I am capable of an absolutely evil act, then what value do my acts of good have? If I'm only capable of helping and not hurting others, then am I not just doing what my fate constrains me to? And in that case, how can I consider myself a hero, as my daughter sees me, when I haven't even taken that decision: to be a hero or to be a despicable villain? To jump or not to jump...
I saw this movie 3 years ago and still it gives me the chills to my spine!!! Any body can be like him.... The movie's ending is one of the greatest ever!
BY FAR one of the best movies I’ve seen that totally missed my radar for a very long time. The movie is extremely suspenseful in the most unique, effective way.
This was an incredibly frightening film because it showed the merciless depth of evil a human being could perpetrate against another. Unlike the cheap American version which dictates a happy ending, this one played out the to the end with the awful results of the professor's actions and the awful fate of the young man desperate to know what happened to his girlfriend. I'm frightened again just watching this and remembering the film many years ago. Evil people like this exist.
The very strange thing about the cheap American version is that it was made by the same filmmaker who did the fantastic original French version - which is something that I definitely found odd.
Amazing movie with a brilliant soundtrack. The background music when Rex is coming out of the tunnel to pick up Saskia in his car shakes me to the core...so scary
Very disturbing film. The horror of evil in its purest form. Straightforward narrative with flashbacks makes the uncanny subtext even more powerful and metaphysical.
I used to watch paranormal/ghost movies because you know I want to feel scared and whatnot but tbh those kind of movies just made me bored. Then I watched this one, and I cant get it off my mind eversince. There is no ghost or jumpscare or anything like that but this really freaked me out because I know this can happen in real life. That is the scariest part. I highly recommend this film! Pls dont watch the remake version.
Same. I used to watch horror/ghost/supernatural films all the time. High rated films looking to be scared out my mind. Like a high lol but it got boring because its nearly all the same. Maybe 70s, 80s horrors are more hitting but all these newer horror films just pure boring. But just as yourself, I ended up stumbling over this "1988" film and man, it effected be deeply. Seriously. I had to go for a walk. Etched into my mind. Ended up changing things around in my life. It really disturbed me because its not that this can easily happen in real life but it has happened, millions of times, around the world, throughout time. My uncle is a police captain and he's shared countless cases with us. People just are "so unaware" how many missing person reports are filed. We go to work or school, go home, eat etc but many of us are so unaware of whats going on in society unless you read the newspaper "everydaY" aqnd watch the news but even that isn't enough because so many cases aren't reported or covered in the news. ANd "luckily" we live in social media era where everyone can see everything but imagine kidnappings and murders back in 70s, 50s, 1900s etc, inccludig in other countries, a time where there wasn't cameras, cell phones, DNA testing etc. Sooo Sooo many unsolved cases. So many buried secrets The worst part is imagining this happening to you. Buried alive. So many have been. Imagining knowing "yup im about to die". Highly recommend this film. DO NOT watch pathetic remake. These films hit the heart deep
What made this movie so interesting, so creepy, was the fact that the main focus of the movie was the criminal. It really gives you a glimpse into the way the wheels turn in the mind of an intelligent sociopath.
This movie really terrified me. Much better than the American remake. I was a little younger than the couple when I first saw this and it would worry me and my boyfriend because we were the exact type of couple they were, and we'd stop and go into big roadside gas stations and tourist stops like the one in the movie (it was a surprise to see that Europe had very American-style stations like this....we always thought they were like the gas stations in early James Bond films). Lots of car breakdowns....wow.
Just watched it, though the ending left me wanting more, I felt there was too much of the film left that I didn't see, it could have revealed much more.
Seriously? The genius of the film is in its slow build up and reveal of the key ending. It works so well as it relies on tension rather than graphically showing anything. You realize of course that the ending replicates the fate of the woman he spent so long obsessed with, one of possible many victims?
It takes you into the mind of psychopathy, which is more common than most people think. If this is not scary to you, then I guess you havent experienced it first hand and I am glad for you. This is something entirely different than obsession. The movie also asks existential questions of the meaning in searching for truth and it highlights how the emotional bond to other people can constrain us when dealing with psycopathy ... among other things.
No blood, violence or gore.....yet one of the creepiest horror films ever. Couldn't sit though the US remake though because I knew they changed the ending.
@Rodimus78 you have a good point, there are a lot of comercial successes that are good movies. i think sluizer´s last movie was called stone raft. it came out like in 2003, i think.
Wow - This movie. It shows in a simple way how people can do such evil things. Its a fantastic movie. Its sad, scary, beautiful but overriding uncomfortable.
Go to settings, closed caption, click auto-translate to English. You can increase the size of font and opacity in subtitle options. Personally 25% opacity works well as it's still readable but doesn't dominate the screen as much, just be aware the subtitle translation's not great: ruclips.net/video/CdwSM-dKIdk/видео.html&feature=emb_logo
The final moment in this movie is pure terror, must be on of the most terrifying things to experience, personally i actually know the feeling exactly but only because i had a very realistic dream once sleeping in a enclosure and woke up beeling that i was trapped.. Its pure panic..
Gee mate. That is indeed scary to experience. In fact, I used to have a dream myself which is slightly different but in the dream a very heavy "thing" collides on my head , but I never got to see any "boundary" of the place, so it also feels like an enclosure(being trapped)
Isn't it nuts how everything cinematic that comes out of Europe is far more superior that anything the America film market can remake. I can't think of one european film that Hollywood has remade, regardless of star-power, that was actually good. Sure, I will concede that TV shows are replicated to success in America, but somehow, films codes are an impossible to crack.
Very nuts and i'm American. Born and raised in U.S. I'm a "HUGE" movie watch. That's all i do. I have no social life. I used to watch only U.S. movie until I started watching films from other countries and I fell into a massive shock depression because I felt criminally decieved thinking American films were superior when they werent at all. Felt like i wasted my entire life waqtching U.S. films. European films including other countrie as well as Towers higher than films here. Unbelievable. And this is "1988". I've seen so many remakes and the originals are always better.
@@macabree5856 I was born and raised in New York. Like you, I grew up watching many films and I am still a huge movie guy. Here's the thing, as we get older, I think that we start to realize the quality of the films we watch is not what we thought. As mature people, we start to realize that fantasy films are okay, but there must be structure. As kids, we don't care about that. And, structure is the kind of thing that we will also find in foreign movies. I wouldn't say that I wasted my time time watching American movies...But, I would say that American films prepared me for a better experience later in life. Mostly, it's the American remakes that fall flat. But, sometimes they do okay. "A Man Called Otto" the American remake of one of my favorite films, was surprisingly okay. It was not as good as the original foreign language version, but it was more true to the book and it had some great performances. American movies are not all bad and at one time, American movies did lead the world. Just not so much lately!
If you don't find it believable/understandable, it might be easiest for you to understand it purely as a narrative device for understanding the lengths one will go in extremes of compassion and obsession. Or just a device to get a damn scary ending. Perhaps it's a male thing, I can certainly understand Rex. I think for Rex, Saskia was a beacon, and they were very much like two golden eggs floating through the universe (and colliding), even before death - he couldn't leave her, alive or dead.
It is. It has something to do with the story by Tim Krabbé or whatever.. Saskia is supposed to be speaking Dutch, and she's trying to ask him if he has some spare change for her in French. He always goes after people who are from a different country. The book is very interesting.
I SHOULD buy and watch this movie! It looks intriguing and fascinating (and it seems like an american indie movie, though it isn't..if that really matters )
Have you seen it yet? I just got done watching it last night and it’s truly disturbing. Great movie though but the only kind of movie you wanna see once cuz it’s that terrifying.
the book was so weird. I had to read it for Dutch and it was short but did tell a lot of information... weird ending though, didn't expect him to die ***SPOILER***
Interesting premise, the editing and mood were interesting at times. Some very effective scenes. The overall watch-ability and pacing is not gonna be for everyone. It’s not a popcorn movie and does feel a bit like a chore at times.
The American remake is terrible! The original, above, is one of the most horrifying movies I have ever seen. It's one of the most convincing portrayals of a psychopath you could ever watch - the ending gave me nightmares.
the american version was a sad cop-out.one of the saddest films i have ever seen. i've bought it, it was quite hard to get hold of.sub-titles don't bother me. it's riveting from start to finish. i feel so sad for the couple, it must be a horrible death. i could'nt stop thinking of this film for days after i first seen it. even though i bought it years ago i can't bring myself to watch it again. i go to but then say i'm not ready yet.
i just got finished watching this. its a very disturbing film. i just wished i didnt already see the ending before i watched this. i saw it on bravo's 100 scariest movie moments. dont watch that unless you have seen all of the movies it shows cuz it has ruined a lot of them for me
Saw this on British TV late one night. The boyfriend wanted to know what happened to her and he did. The family fellow is.... A psychopath. More scary because this is more realistic and easier to believe than say... The exorcist, nosferatu etc....
@ernieevh I don't mind comercialized products as long as it doesn't corrupt the quality of the product. I wish Mr. Sluzier made a deal w/ Hollywood to leave The Vanishing alone & allow him to make a different suspense movie from scratch. That what Matt Groening did when he kept creative control of Life In Hell & pitched The Simpsons for FOX which was a basic inspiration & that was a safe bet on his part. I wonder what became of George Sluzier. Is he still making new wave movies? -R78
Yes! And as good as the US remake is.... they cop out at the end and the boyfriends survives! In the Dutch version it's just splinters under the fingernails, very much oxygen starved panting, a dying lighter flame, and rolling credits. But Hollywood likes it's audiences to leave smiling!
One of the most horrifying movies out there. It has no blood, no gore, and yet its terrifying to think there are people out there like this, who look normal on the outside and are monsters beyond recognition. Evil in its banality. Very recommended
True. Their NORMALITY is scary.
We can all be scared and hence careful around "scary" people.
But by nature, a little bit of complacency comes itself when NORMAL people are around.
yes, very true: complacency and the natural tendency to make small compromises can easily result in tunnel vision, especially in one's own delusions with no outside reference point.
Whereas the significance of tragedy is limitless in its boundaries, bad things happen in mere moments and are rarely as clear as a Mordor vs the Shire type of scale.
You're calling it the "banality of evil", but you're actually arguing the standard view that this concept was created to battle
@@havardhullen889 I think you could argue that this movie does indeed express the banality of evil; Raymond is a boring person, his methods are dull and meticulous and his motives, far from being grand and mysterious like many fictional villains, really come down to petty self-indulgence. It is his victim, Saskia, and her absence, that create the tragedy and the obsession. On his own, Raymond is just a chemistry teacher.
@@kforcer I agree to some extent. I think the success of the film rests on that actor's brilliant portrayal. He is not a cartoon villain, just a psychopath who gives in to his urge to dominate and kill. The terrifying part is how it shows the indiscriminate nature and meaningless of such an endeavour to the person perpetuating it. What pushes the film into genius territory for me is how it willingly plays with tonal shifts like the comic way he's seen getting ready to commit the crime. It doesn't make the killer sympathetic but it just presents a person who is capable of the most diabolical acts and that's the chilling part.
A word of caution - this is pretty much the only film I've seen where I'd say it's imperative to not know the ending before watching. Avoid spoilers if you can and just watch it. It's one of the most haunting films I've ever seen.
Fincher spoiled this on Sev7n commentary :)
Dirty Harry It will.Don't worry.
too late probably :P
what spoiler? it's obvious in the first 20 minutes lol
@@jamirimaj6880 I guess the spoiler could be that while you watch the movie you keep expecting something less stupid to happen at the end
This film is so terrifying, because what he did to Saskia, could happen in real life. One of the worst things to see was how he carefully planned everything out, using his family as a test. He tested the sounds of females screaming in his yard to see if neighbors would hear them. If the neighbors couldn't hear his family screaming, they likely wouldn't be able to hear his victim scream later.
thanks for the spoilers pal
@@sunrise-592 lol
@@sunrise-592 He didn't spoilt much. go see it. the ending is the best
@@elguitarTom I read the wiki. Is the ending available online? I'd love to know how it was filmed.
@@sunrise-592 it is better not to read the comments.
Director's approach was simple and intimate, so the portrait of an obsession become so terrifying.
Probably the most chilling & believable portrayal of a sociopath. You watch shows like "Dexter" & realize how cartoonish it is.
That's because Dexter is not a sociopath.
@@jamesgand828 He's a cringey unrealistic character
Everyone is calling Raymond a sociopath, but I don't think he is. He's way scarier than that. Sociopaths are really just unstable losers with no impulse control who commit petty crimes. Raymond is 100% in control of his actions which he carefully plans, he may even be capable of love and empathy, but CHOOSES to commit horrific acts, just to see how it feels... It connects us to something very dark that may exist in all of us, but we dare not explore. But Raymond did...
Raymond might even never kill again after the events of the movie and resume his unremarkable life, cherishing the murders as creepy memories. I think the idea that this otherwise normal person is capable of such cold murders is way scarier than the idea of a "sociopath", most of which are pretty easy to spot.
Yeah, it's a little confusing because Raymond refers to himself as a sociopath to Rex while they're in the car together. I agree with you though, he's clearly no sociopath. If anything he's a psychopath.
He doesn't do it just to see how it feels. The central ideas of his behavior are tied to his freedom from fate and are presented in the 2 scenes of his monologue in the car. The first one shows his extreme need of personal freedom, thinking "I'm sitting here on the balcony, and living by the standards of normalcy (which he, wrongly imo, equates to destiny) I shouldn't jump." But he can't stand that constraint, so he jumps, even though he knows it will hurt. In the second scene where he rescues the little girl, an even darker idea, really just an extension of the first one, arises: if I do not know of myself that I am capable of an absolutely evil act, then what value do my acts of good have? If I'm only capable of helping and not hurting others, then am I not just doing what my fate constrains me to? And in that case, how can I consider myself a hero, as my daughter sees me, when I haven't even taken that decision: to be a hero or to be a despicable villain? To jump or not to jump...
I saw this movie 3 years ago and still it gives me the chills to my spine!!! Any body can be like him.... The movie's ending is one of the greatest ever!
BY FAR one of the best movies I’ve seen that totally missed my radar for a very long time.
The movie is extremely suspenseful in the most unique, effective way.
One of my favourite films, a masterpiece, absolute genius of scriptwriting and direction.
This movie is an unbelievable shocker with the most terrifying ending I have ever seen in any movie.
Now this is a great film with very little spent on sets and special effects just fantastic acting, story and direction.
This was an incredibly frightening film because it showed the merciless depth of evil a human being could perpetrate against another. Unlike the cheap American version which dictates a happy ending, this one played out the to the end with the awful results of the professor's actions and the awful fate of the young man desperate to know what happened to his girlfriend. I'm frightened again just watching this and remembering the film many years ago. Evil people like this exist.
The very strange thing about the cheap American version is that it was made by the same filmmaker who did the fantastic original French version - which is something that I definitely found odd.
I had to watch this film for an assignment in film class. This was in 2014. I still think about this film till this DAY!!!
One of the scariest films I have ever see. Brilliant.
On my all time favorite films list.
watched this at 4am on tcm channel.. i dont think im gonna sleep for a few days.
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Excellent, excellent film. I cannot recommend this enough.
Amazing movie with a brilliant soundtrack. The background music when Rex is coming out of the tunnel to pick up Saskia in his car shakes me to the core...so scary
This is an excellent movie, one of the best suspense films of all time.
Very disturbing film. The horror of evil in its purest form. Straightforward narrative with flashbacks makes the uncanny subtext even more powerful and metaphysical.
Awesome cinematography !!!
that's the weirdest trailer ever
Thanks for the enlightenment.
This film deserves a second watch. It is a solid film. Give it a go.
I used to watch paranormal/ghost movies because you know I want to feel scared and whatnot but tbh those kind of movies just made me bored. Then I watched this one, and I cant get it off my mind eversince. There is no ghost or jumpscare or anything like that but this really freaked me out because I know this can happen in real life. That is the scariest part. I highly recommend this film! Pls dont watch the remake version.
Same. I used to watch horror/ghost/supernatural films all the time. High rated films looking to be scared out my mind. Like a high lol but it got boring because its nearly all the same. Maybe 70s, 80s horrors are more hitting but all these newer horror films just pure boring.
But just as yourself, I ended up stumbling over this "1988" film and man, it effected be deeply. Seriously. I had to go for a walk. Etched into my mind. Ended up changing things around in my life. It really disturbed me because its not that this can easily happen in real life but it has happened, millions of times, around the world, throughout time. My uncle is a police captain and he's shared countless cases with us. People just are "so unaware" how many missing person reports are filed. We go to work or school, go home, eat etc but many of us are so unaware of whats going on in society unless you read the newspaper "everydaY" aqnd watch the news but even that isn't enough because so many cases aren't reported or covered in the news. ANd "luckily" we live in social media era where everyone can see everything but imagine kidnappings and murders back in 70s, 50s, 1900s etc, inccludig in other countries, a time where there wasn't cameras, cell phones, DNA testing etc. Sooo Sooo many unsolved cases. So many buried secrets
The worst part is imagining this happening to you. Buried alive. So many have been. Imagining knowing "yup im about to die". Highly recommend this film. DO NOT watch pathetic remake. These films hit the heart deep
the soundtrack is so good
What made this movie so interesting, so creepy, was the fact that the main focus of the movie was the criminal. It really gives you a glimpse into the way the wheels turn in the mind of an intelligent sociopath.
This movie really terrified me. Much better than the American remake. I was a little younger than the couple when I first saw this and it would worry me and my boyfriend because we were the exact type of couple they were, and we'd stop and go into big roadside gas stations and tourist stops like the one in the movie (it was a surprise to see that Europe had very American-style stations like this....we always thought they were like the gas stations in early James Bond films). Lots of car breakdowns....wow.
this is as realistic as it gets, in terms of psychopath potrayal
Just watched it, though the ending left me wanting more, I felt there was too much of the film left that I didn't see, it could have revealed much more.
Seriously? The genius of the film is in its slow build up and reveal of the key ending. It works so well as it relies on tension rather than graphically showing anything. You realize of course that the ending replicates the fate of the woman he spent so long obsessed with, one of possible many victims?
Where can I watch this movie?
Thats what bothered me, the fact that the ending left me with more questions than answers.
I think thats the genius of the film tho
one of the best movies i watched that i will never watch again
great movie!
this movie is frickin insane!!!! really awesome,,, so awesome i'm only watching european films from now on,,,
Would you were kind enough to explain me why this film is amazing??
Ok it was a film about obsession but it never got really frightening..
It takes you into the mind of psychopathy, which is more common than most people think. If this is not scary to you, then I guess you havent experienced it first hand and I am glad for you. This is something entirely different than obsession. The movie also asks existential questions of the meaning in searching for truth and it highlights how the emotional bond to other people can constrain us when dealing with psycopathy ... among other things.
There's something wrong with you then
Johanna ter Steege is incredibly beautiful
Most convincing screams ever start at 0:22
Now I gotta cut loos,
Spoorloos
This film still gives me nightmares!! Absolutely terrifying!
How can this be the vanishing trailer if I'm watching it right now?
🤣🤣🤣
@zatch10013 he was so desperate that he wound rather die knowing, then live without knowing and suffer.
No blood, violence or gore.....yet one of the creepiest horror films ever. Couldn't sit though the US remake though because I knew they changed the ending.
Watch this movie if you're watching this trailer! It's one of the best films I've ever watched
Listen up: comments are spoilers. Avoid them until you've seen the movie!
@Rodimus78 you have a good point, there are a lot of comercial successes that are good movies. i think sluizer´s last movie was called stone raft. it came out like in 2003, i think.
oh dear that last sentence just gave me the creeps!
the movie is beautiful.
Excellent movie, decent trailer as well.
Hello I'm from Brazil and I watched this movie many years, I wonder where he has to download, to see inteiro.O film is excellent.
I've read the book. It's a good one.
@dscottkerr Glad you liked the remake. I wonder if you love the European version even more.
-R78
it was harder for me to watch this than the texas chainsaw massacre
What was the hardest movie to watch for you ?
the final sequence of this film is the second scariest piece of movie I have ever seen the scariest for be was La cabina ~(1972)
Wow - This movie. It shows in a simple way how people can do such evil things. Its a fantastic movie. Its sad, scary, beautiful but overriding uncomfortable.
Absolute genius. Why they remade it, no one will ever know.
The remake was good til they stupidly turned the ending upside down to make it more palatable.
Awesome movie.Finally not a american remake bullshit.Original, good storyline, and a very good ending...
I can only enjoy movies once its spoiled. So definitely watching this now. Sounds like a serious version of Man bites Dog 😂
Cant find this original version anywhere to stream or download in the UK! Its so expensive to buy on DVD here too. Anyone got any links?
Go to settings, closed caption, click auto-translate to English. You can increase the size of font and opacity in subtitle options. Personally 25% opacity works well as it's still readable but doesn't dominate the screen as much, just be aware the subtitle translation's not great:
ruclips.net/video/CdwSM-dKIdk/видео.html&feature=emb_logo
@@chattycathydoll Hi. Settings where? I can get German text but not English I'm confused. Thanks
Here's AI upscaled version in 4k ruclips.net/video/P-UDGzTFB6c/видео.html
@ernieevh Hard to believe George Sluizer directed the sugarcoated American remake of his masterpiece.
-R78
The final moment in this movie is pure terror, must be on of the most terrifying things to experience, personally i actually know the feeling exactly but only because i had a very realistic dream once sleeping in a enclosure and woke up beeling that i was trapped.. Its pure panic..
Gee mate. That is indeed scary to experience.
In fact, I used to have a dream myself which is slightly different but in the dream a very heavy "thing" collides on my head , but I never got to see any "boundary" of the place, so it also feels like an enclosure(being trapped)
Isn't it nuts how everything cinematic that comes out of Europe is far more superior that anything the America film market can remake. I can't think of one european film that Hollywood has remade, regardless of star-power, that was actually good. Sure, I will concede that TV shows are replicated to success in America, but somehow, films codes are an impossible to crack.
Very nuts and i'm American. Born and raised in U.S. I'm a "HUGE" movie watch. That's all i do. I have no social life. I used to watch only U.S. movie until I started watching films from other countries and I fell into a massive shock depression because I felt criminally decieved thinking American films were superior when they werent at all. Felt like i wasted my entire life waqtching U.S. films. European films including other countrie as well as Towers higher than films here. Unbelievable. And this is "1988". I've seen so many remakes and the originals are always better.
@@macabree5856 I was born and raised in New York. Like you, I grew up watching many films and I am still a huge movie guy. Here's the thing, as we get older, I think that we start to realize the quality of the films we watch is not what we thought. As mature people, we start to realize that fantasy films are okay, but there must be structure. As kids, we don't care about that. And, structure is the kind of thing that we will also find in foreign movies. I wouldn't say that I wasted my time time watching American movies...But, I would say that American films prepared me for a better experience later in life. Mostly, it's the American remakes that fall flat. But, sometimes they do okay. "A Man Called Otto" the American remake of one of my favorite films, was surprisingly okay. It was not as good as the original foreign language version, but it was more true to the book and it had some great performances. American movies are not all bad and at one time, American movies did lead the world. Just not so much lately!
If you don't find it believable/understandable, it might be easiest for you to understand it purely as a narrative device for understanding the lengths one will go in extremes of compassion and obsession. Or just a device to get a damn scary ending. Perhaps it's a male thing, I can certainly understand Rex. I think for Rex, Saskia was a beacon, and they were very much like two golden eggs floating through the universe (and colliding), even before death - he couldn't leave her, alive or dead.
Actually it's "Spoorloos".....which is the movie the American remake ":The Vanishing" starring Jeff Bridges was molded after.
Please tell me, what feature does it. Make the movie soo interesting. I mean, for the late 80s maybe it was innovative but ok. It was a good movie
Genial
I thought this film was wonderfully played !!!
@KevsHardLemonade
Agreed. Doubt I would have bothered to check this one out if I had seen the trailer first, which would have been a shame.
It is. It has something to do with the story by Tim Krabbé or whatever.. Saskia is supposed to be speaking Dutch, and she's trying to ask him if he has some spare change for her in French. He always goes after people who are from a different country.
The book is very interesting.
I SHOULD buy and watch this movie! It looks intriguing and fascinating (and it seems like an american indie movie, though it isn't..if that really matters )
Have you seen it yet? I just got done watching it last night and it’s truly disturbing. Great movie though but the only kind of movie you wanna see once cuz it’s that terrifying.
I could have sworn this version was filmed in black and white
awesome movie.real horror
the book was so weird. I had to read it for Dutch and it was short but did tell a lot of information... weird ending though, didn't expect him to die ***SPOILER***
Interesting premise, the editing and mood were interesting at times. Some very effective scenes. The overall watch-ability and pacing is not gonna be for everyone. It’s not a popcorn movie and does feel a bit like a chore at times.
@will612612 i dont think its french,, i belive it is actually a netherlands movie,, with a lot of french dialogue
@detriplea i do too,,
Right up there with Hitchcock and David lynch
The American remake is terrible! The original, above, is one of the most horrifying movies I have ever seen. It's one of the most convincing portrayals of a psychopath you could ever watch - the ending gave me nightmares.
@dustieeeee no, he wasn't. two girls where his daughters, and the woman is his wife.
Way better ending than its Hollywood twin.
the american version was a sad cop-out.one of the saddest films i have ever seen. i've bought it, it was quite hard to get hold of.sub-titles don't bother me. it's riveting from start to finish. i feel so sad for the couple, it must be a horrible death. i could'nt stop thinking of this film for days after i first seen it. even though i bought it years ago i can't bring myself to watch it again. i go to but then say i'm not ready yet.
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Kubrick thought this movie was very scary.
Overrated
i just got finished watching this. its a very disturbing film. i just wished i didnt already see the ending before i watched this. i saw it on bravo's 100 scariest movie moments. dont watch that unless you have seen all of the movies it shows cuz it has ruined a lot of them for me
Yeah I remember Bravo's 100 scariest movie moments
Saw this on British TV late one night.
The boyfriend wanted to know what happened to her and he did.
The family fellow is.... A psychopath.
More scary because this is more realistic and easier to believe than say... The exorcist, nosferatu etc....
I feel like these comments are for me as I’ve not seen this movie yet.
@ernieevh I don't mind comercialized products as long as it doesn't corrupt the quality of the product. I wish Mr. Sluzier made a deal w/ Hollywood to leave The Vanishing alone & allow him to make a different suspense movie from scratch. That what Matt Groening did when he kept creative control of Life In Hell & pitched The Simpsons for FOX which was a basic inspiration & that was a safe bet on his part. I wonder what became of George Sluzier. Is he still making new wave movies?
-R78
Hey this is TheManWhoKnew..., Not the vanishing, thx.
Thurston Moore brought me here
1:24 ....Bubbles....?
@will612612 It's not French but one of the main actors is French lmao
@stratocaster1986able i think that was the point your not supposed to now everything
@AloysBarron I'm sorry :$
I hope I didn't ruin it for you. It's still a good book though...
What the hell is this man? Where the hell is the Dude?
hottest chcl3 scene
which part
One of the weirdest trailers I've seen
@kisskissh Trust me english dubbing will ruin the effect of the movie even more than reading subtitles. Maybe foregin movies are not meant for you.
the ending reminded me so much of buried
american end! always good
SHIT 💩💩💩
This film destroyed me...
If there is any movie creepier than this one I'd love to know!
+John Herne easily Snowtown 2011 by Justin Kurziel
Matt Rodriguez I will definitely check it out!
+John Herne wouldn't recommend it, so boring.
i got heart wrecked.
How disturbing is this film? Is it "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" caliber?
I seen the American one
Yes! And as good as the US remake is.... they cop out at the end and the boyfriends survives! In the Dutch version it's just splinters under the fingernails, very much oxygen starved panting, a dying lighter flame, and rolling credits. But Hollywood likes it's audiences to leave smiling!