The Vanishing

The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988) A brilliant film about our obsessions and the frequently blurred margin between genius and madness, sanity and sickness, normalcy and lurking madness, and the devastating premonitions that we all have, that go quite unnoticed. A twisting, winding psychological journey, utterly compelling, with the most devastating climax scene ever (recently borrowed in a dire Hollywood thriller). Whatever you do, please don't reveal it to your friends, and please, please however desperate you may be, under no circumstances watch the horribly compromised Hollywood remake made surprisingly by the same "sell out" director. The original remains one the truly great psychological horror films ever made. Sublime. Most Memorable Moment: the haunted Rex Hoffman finally finds out how he lost his girlfriend - one of the most harrowing and bone chilling scenes in cinema.