woensdag 3 augustus 2022

SPOORLOOS

Also known as: The Vanishing
Date: 1988
Director: George Sluizer
Production Companies: Argos Films, Co-Productiefonds Binnenlandse Omroep, Golden Egg

Stars:
Gene Bervoets, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Sache, Tania Latarjet, Lucille Appere, Pier Forget

Storyline:
Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorne, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine.

Additional information:
Entertainment Weekly ranked this as the 25th scariest movie of all time. According to director George Sluizer, director Stanley Kubrick called him after seeing Spoorloos (1988) to tell him it was the most terrifying film he had ever seen. He had seen it ten times then, and was impressed by the film's structure and ending, as well as the performance of actress Johanna ter Steege. So impressed, that he was said to have offered her a role in his (uncompleted) film Aryan Papers.