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The Vanishing (1988, Neth/Fr.)
(aka Spoorloos)
In director George Sluizer's original and haunting
Dutch thriller:
- college chemistry teacher and genial family man
Raymond Lemorne's (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) creepy preparations
to abduct a woman (i.e., a sling with a fake, removable cast, chloroform,
a log of his pulse rate after approaching various prospective female
victims, a formula connecting
"dosage" with "minutes unconscious" and "miles",
etc.)
- the scene of the mysterious disappearance of Saskia
Wagter (Johanna ter Steege) at a French gas station (by chloroforming
her into unconsciousness, shown in flashback) while on a trip through
France with lover Rex Hofman (Gene Bervoets)
- the chilling shock-ending finale three years later
in which her abductor Lemorne planned a similar hideous fate for
Rex by drugging him and burying him alive in a coffin under the earth
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