i can not understand how anyone could say the first 100 minute of this film be of no merit whatever . surely the end that every viewer find so profoundly unsettle only work because the rest of this beautifully craft film lead u to expect a quite different end . spoorloos be not only the most genuinely chilling movie i have ever see and it be a good contender for best film of the 80 . it feeble hollywood remake ( the vanishing ) should serve a a warning to all european film maker of the crassness of la studio executive .