Spoorloos 1988

Janet Maslin, New York Times: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie advances in a tantalizing fashion, supplying information obliquely, suggesting as much as it tells, and everything leads up to a climax that is as horrifying as it is probably inevitable. Read more

Time Out: Sluizer's direction is seamless throughout, effortlessly juggling domesticity and damnation as it ploughs inexorably towards an appaling denouement. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: A brilliantly crafted intellectual thriller with a spring like a trap. It carries you down with it. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Director George Sluizer unfolds his story with non-hysterical -- but nonetheless unnerving -- precision. Vanishing is refreshingly free of manipulative scenes involving running bath water, jagged-edge cutlery and bunnies in the saucepan. Read more