Directed by:
Brad AndersonScreenplay:
Anthony JaswinskiCinematography:
Uta BriesewitzComposer:
Lucas VidalCast:
Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton, John Leguizamo, Larry Fessenden, Ron Causey, Jacob Latimore, Jordan Trovillion, Carolyn Taylor, Taylor GroothuisVOD (1)
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An unexplained blackout plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, and by the time the sun rises, only a few people remain surrounded by heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. A small handful of strangers that have survived the night (Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore) each find their way to a rundown bar. With daylight beginning to disappear completely and whispering shadows surrounding the survivors, they soon discover that the enemy is the darkness itself. (official distributor synopsis)
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The creators of Vanishing on 7th Street must have watched Lost quite a bit and really liked the element of the fog that appeared here and devoured people. And so, to avoid being too cliché awkward, they decided to replace the fog with darkness and make a proper horror movie, which would also have some philosophical depth. Haha. Nothing like that happens and you don't get an interesting or good film. It's a shame, but with a similar beginning, the viewer has to expect such a development.
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Vanishing on 7th Street really pissed me off. It has a very good and original idea, some scenes have a nicely dark and thick atmosphere, but the script ruins everything it can. I don’t necessarily demand horror characters behave logically, but there are limits… The plot basically doesn’t move forward, and when it does, it’s so brutal that everything falls apart. By the end I had the feeling that the creators were laughing at horror fans. Brad Anderson should pick better scripts, because with stuff like this he’ll never do another Session 9.
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Good for you, you exist! Of courser he has to run away, even if somebody is yelling at him not to leave. Anakin has become Luke, for some goddamn reason the shadows start to murmur and everybody behaves like idiots. A couple of quite well-made scenes are to be found, but it leaves a bitter taste because questions remain unanswered while the movie throughout concentrates on hogwash. But the visuals are quite decent. Empty streets are always fine. Hm, and that’s all I can praise about it.
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