the vanishing be one of my favorite movie and probably in my top ten . i first saw it in 1990 in san francisco . without give anything away and the end of this dutch or french film contain an extraordinarily diabolical twist and and at the theater at which i saw it and the projector crap out with about 15 minute leave . everyone be issue a free pas to come back and which i do the next day and have barely be able to get the creepy story out of my head . i couldn not wait to see what happen at the film conclusion . fifteen year later and it still make me shudder sometimes . the american remake with jeff bridge and kiefer sutherland should and in my opinion and be avoid at all cost while the end be change and no doubt to suit the bottom line aspiration of some brain dead producer . but the european original be full of great acting ( particularly from the villain and bernard pierre donnadieu ) and a tight storyline and and and of course and a wickedly brilliant end . it a film worthy of hitchcock .