Tag: George Sluizer

Golden Eggs Flying Through Space: The Horrific Dream Logic at the Heart of The Vanishing

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Saskia stands outside of a highway tunnel with a green mountain in the distance.

|Sophie Durbin| My first encounter with George Sluizer’s The Vanishing was on a lazy evening in February of 2023. The Criterion Channel description promised a “truly unsettling” ending, which drew me in since I love being upset by fictional peoples’ problems… Continue reading

Gothic, Dull and Sharp: George Sluizer’s The Vanishing

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A close-up image of a missing person poster showing a black-and-white image of Saskia. The poster is glued to a tree on a city street

|MH Rowe| You might say The Vanishing (1988) tells the tale of two creepy men. One is a fretful, controlling boyfriend, the other a methodical murderer. With a different emphasis, the director George Sluizer might have smoothed out the boyfriend and signaled to the audience that we aren’t supposed to understand Rex Hofman (Gene Bervoets) as a creep… Continue reading