Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Vanishing on 7th Street Review.



Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)




Director - Brad Anderson


 Its just another day in Detroit, Paul (John Leguizamo- Repo Men, Gamer) is working the reels at the local cinema, Rosemary (Thandie Newton- Crash, 2012)is doing her shift at the hospital and Luke (Hayden Christensen- Jumper, Takers) is sleeping off his night shift when a power cut happens to the city and when the lights come back on everyone has simply vanished.


 Vanishing on 7th Street is branded as a Horror/Mystery/Thriller, and even at the sight of the trailer, my girlfriend vowed never to watch it. My girlfriend is scared of the dark, not in a 'sleep with the lights on' kind of way, it doesn't terrify her, just more in the typical imagination running wild sense. I personally don't have a problem with the dark, so I had problems with finding the 'Horror' in Vanishing on 7th Street. I'm sure it's there, but It didn't manage to seep its way into my noggin.

 Vanishing on....you know what, for the sake of my RSI, I will refer to this feature from now on as just Vanishing, well, First off, I like the idea. Although nothing really new, it fits nicely in with the apocalyptic 'end is nigh' season we seem to be pumped with every six months. The small cast has been chosen well and the cinematography is not a let down and as most of the film is shot in darkness, it's all visible and clear. The Script is nothing great but as most of the plot is visibly clear, there is no real need to criticise it.

 The plot line kicks in within the first two minutes and then starts to go downhill pretty much from then on to the end. My biggest problem with Vanishing though, are the creatures, monsters, ghosts, whatever they are, as they are supposed to be the 'scary' thing about the film, the thing that gets your blood pumping, the hairs standing up, but all they did was remind me of the shadows dragging the bad guy to hell in Ghost. That's probably why I wasn't scared at the film. I suppose if you do have a fear of the dark, or that you can be hurt by it, then you will probably get a good thrill from it.


6/10

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