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0This is a terrible movie. It has no business being as terrible as it is, because it boasts a perfectly acceptable horror premise and a perfectly acceptable cast.
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70Anderson spends most of his energy creating a mood - making "Vanishing" more cerebral than white-knuckle, though a few more shrieks (mine) might have been nice.
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Feb 24, 201163The film's grand concept is betrayed by Anthony Jaswinski's clumsy, mediocre script and by Anderson's inability to manage the talents of a great cast.
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40The dark is not threatening, and metaphorical darkness is even less so; as a result this movie is not particularly scary.
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70A highly respectable piece of genre entertainment, one with a little more class than most.
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63Not as elaborate or entertaining as Anderson's last feature, "Transsiberian," but it's got enough shocks for an entirely respectable addition to the post-apocalyptic genre.
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60It's a slow time at the cineplex, and the sinister scares served up by Brad Anderson are just spooky enough to freak out undemanding horror fans.
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60The story, which starts promisingly only to stop, restart, sputter and come to a wheezing, disappointing puff of nada, proves the least satisfying part of the whole. The finale certainly isn't earned, but all the nasty, tiny jolts throughout the movie do prick the skin nicely.
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58Vanishing On 7th Street does work well as a kind of mood-piece, observing all the ways we surround ourselves with the illusion of warmth and security, before the shadows creep in.
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25Anderson has made a zombie movie without the zombies.
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40Please. If you're going to ask audiences to submit to a dim theater themselves, at least greet them with the proper monster they paid for.
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50The actors work hard to convey terror-especially Mr. Christensen, who proved he could act when he played disgraced journalist Stephen Glass in the marvelous, underrated "Shattered Glass"-but the panic that overtakes the characters never quite grips the audience.
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Feb 15, 201170It is creepy enough to make you hope the theater parking lot is brightly lit.
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50Whatever one's view of Christian evangelical beliefs, from strictly a horror-film standpoint the movie needs a better villain.