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Don't Believe the Hype

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I always enjoy these type of movies, & for a TV movie it does great justice, and you will not regret watching it. The only confusing part is the movie does not do any explaining at all to the viewer reg the actual plot. One can interpret it in many ways & this is what I think.SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! I'm 100% sure that most of the towns people are all past victims, And their bodies have been snatched by some entity. Their true identity has been lost. How there bodies are stolen, and the purpose, I have no idea. I believe this is all a government experiment happening in no where. The symbolism, neutron bomb explosion in 1940 The crow & the reference to some monster / spirit really leaves us wondering all over the place. & I think what's in the tunnels and in weaver are just the people behind all of this. I suspect the sheriff also is in on this. the reason why I come to this conclusion is *Somebody sabotaged the vehicle while the family was exploring *can clearly hear a the mystery person breathing *the mystery person used a torch to explore while the family was sleeping *somebody was spying on the family while they were in the motel. *when the family was trying to escape from weaver somebody tried to trap them. *The pit where all the cars were dumped. The government is hiding something or doing something to the people & it's quite logical to think that cos the family knows too much info it has to be dealt with. Just think about it, the purpose of a good mystery story is always leave the audience seeking wild explanations. But sometimes the most obvious factors are always missed. O I don't think this story dealt with any monsters/ aliens or evil spirits.

This movie was suspenseful and intriguing with some good scares! It kept up my attention at all times - until the last five minutes. The ending was a disappointment. It was only strange - or rather: it would not necessarily have been a bad ending, if all the questions had been answered. I think the movie-makers make it too easy for themselves, when they throw in a lot of interesting clues and suggestions... but in the end they do not have to explain anything, not make the story come together.I like it that the family was a step family with a "borrowed kid" (a friend of one of the kids in the family). Because most movies of this kind are about nuclear families. I think step families, which are so common nowadays after all, also need "movie families" to identify with. But it would have been even more efficient if the "borrowed kid" had been the stepmother's biological son instead of just a friend of the family. Because then the movie could have addressed such issues as loyalty, responsibility and sacrifice in a step family in extreme situations. I mean this scenario for instance: the stepmother's only biological child is lost in the desert. She naturally wants to go and look for him, but her husband and his kids want to flee while there is still time. What happens then..?

Disappearance is set in the Mojave desert as Jim (Harry Hamlin) & Patty Henley (Susan Dey) plus their two kids Katie (Basia A'Hern) & Matt (Jeremey Lelliott) along with Ethan (Jamie Croft) a friend of the family are travelling along, they stop at a roadside diner & ask about an old deserted mining town on the map called Weaver. No-one claims to have heard of it but it's definitely there & the family decide to take a detour in order to check it out & take some pictures. Once at the town they take some pictures & have a look around but when it comes time to leave their car won't start & they have to spend the night there. While looking around they find a camcorder videotape which they play only to discover footage of a scared woman saying all her friends have disappeared, the next morning & their car has disappeared as things take a very sinister turn. What is Weaver's secret? Will the Henley's ever leave there alive...Written, co-executive produced & directed by Walter Klenhard I have to say that Disappearance is one of the most frustrating films I have ever watched. For the first 85 minutes it was a pretty good mysterious mix of thriller & horror film but then we are treated to one of the single worst endings ever in motion picture history. The script suggest lots of different things but never elaborates or confirms & I was sitting there genuinely intrigued about what was going on, from the families car mysterious disappearing, the four recent graves, the thing in the abandoned mines, the supernatural sandstorm, the sudden & unexplained disappearance of Ethan & his just as unexplained reappearance, the Sheriff's sinister motives, the compass in the car going crazy, the crashed plane, the townspeople denying Weaver existed & the possible side effects of a neutron bomb being dropped near Weaver in the 40's but they are all tossed out of the window & for all we know could have been totally separate random events. Everything was coming along nicely & was set up for a big twist revelation but none was forthcoming & instead I was treated to the most ambiguous, strange, surreal & downright frustrating ending possible. If nothing else the ending contradicts much of what has gone before & leaves the viewer with more questions than answers. It's almost as if the makers had these great ideas but then didn't know what to do with them & just made the ending up on the spot. I just felt I put so much effort into watching the film which can be pretty slow at times without any sort of reward & in fact the ending felt more like a kick in the teeth or a good two finger salute!Director Klenhard does a reasonable job here, the old ghost town has a certain atmosphere & the large expansive desert locations give a good sense of isolation. It's well made but what were they thinking with that ending? Nothing fits, nothing makes sense & it's just a huge frustrating mess that after sitting through the thing for nearly an hour & a half leaves you confused & wanting to know more. Despite being a horror film there's no blood or gore although there are one or two creepy moments here & there. The film actually reminds of The Hills Have Eyes (2006) remake for large parts as that is what the film is set-up to be before a bizarre ending which does nothing to bring any closure to the film.Technically the film is good with high production values, good special effects, sets, locations & cinematography. Set in America but filmed in South Australia. The acting is fine from a decent cast.Disappearance is a really odd film, for a long time it shapes up to be a neat little horror mystery thriller but it never explains anything which happens & the truly surreal ending just throws up more questions than answers. I really can't see anyone making head nor tail of this, I really can't.

Strangely enough, none of you have commented on the fact that the entire movie is narrated! I was sitting here watching "Disappearance" on TBS, and I kept hearing this guy's voice whispering something so quietly I couldn't understand it. Through the process of elimination, I eventually realized that it was coming from the TV. So I cranked the volume up to about 60 (normal listening volume is between 12 and 20 on my TV), and I could barely hear it, but there was a male voice narrating the movie! In the scene near the end where Jim and Kate are in the motel, you can clearly hear the voice saying something like "Jim remains seated," and then "Kate leans in, they hug." Like subtitles for the blind... Unfortunately, I live in an apartment, so I couldn't keep the volume up that high for long enough to hear anything useful in helping me decipher the most confusing piece of cinema to grace my television since the last installment of "The Matrix" trilogy...