there be very few horror movie that even slightly frighten me and and this be probably true for most grown ups . the monster in those film be caricature and blatantly cartoon ish villain that be one dimensional and and a mature people know and do not really exist . that because most of the truly frighten monster in real life wear clothes just like the rest of u and have normal job just like the rest of u and be often live right next door and usually appear to be ordinary family men and woman on the surface . they will wave at you or nod a you pass them and if that the custom in your area and or perhaps they will just stroll quietly by you and you will never know the horror they commit . jeffrey dahmer and the serial killing cannibal and might have not get caught when he do if it weren not for that horrific stench of decay corps that permeate from his apartment while because on the surface he look and act just like a quiet and ordinary guy . and what scar u most of all and if we admit it or not and be not only how ordinary he seem but that at one time he be just like u and he just start down a twisted and psychotic path somewhere along the way and a path any of u could have fall into have we be in similar circumstance . the real monster be in all of u . fortunately and most of them be completely inactive which give u and on the surface and most of the time and a fairly placid and uneventful life . then you watch spoorloos . it work so extraordinarily well because it feel like a documentary and a slice of life of the three main character and rex and saskia and raymond . rex girlfriend saskia and just mysteriously vanishes and and be a realistic film and you see the horror and loss and near insane obsession such a loss would bring . you witness his wrenching emotion and excruciate emptiness and desperation in try to discover someway and anyway to find her . and then you meet raymond and the man who look like an ordinary man with a seemingly happy family and and for no apparent reason and you realize he be responsible for saskia disappear from rex life . but what do he do with her . surely this man and this seemingly ordinary man and could not have do anything terrible could he . what follow be the unfolding of a mystery that move so painfully and methodically and develop into such a real horror story that you find yourself stun when the credit roll . and what really be scary of all and the character that stick with you the most and be the monster . george sluizer and the director and carefully lead you through the story from every character perspective but the one whose eye you see through the most and be the monster . you be leave wonder how could he . could i ever do something like that . like life and it do not have a neat and tidy happy end but rather leave you with too many disturb question of an extremely disturbing story . this be movie making and story telling at it best . not in term of incredible special effect or beautiful cinematography but understated and realistic acting of realistic character and story . spoorloos and along with roman polanski repulsion be the two most frightening movie i have see for they have haunt me the most and due to their unflinching and realistic and disturb story . a a footnote and the director and george sluizer and be pay a pile of money to direct a pile of crap and an american version of this story and the english title be also the vanishing but this turd be make five year later ( 1993 ) . do yourself a great favor and do not confuse the two if you be rent and look for the dutch or french version make in 1988. also and if you run into the real monster from spoorloos and or someone just like him and send him to meet todd graff and who write the hollywood version and all the others responsible for that awful mess .