RE: The Vanishing (1988) - "Sometimes I imagine she's alive. Somewhere far away..."
Cool that you watched a movie from my home country. This is - in my opinion - one of the better movies from The Netherlands, at least in the genres that I'm interested in. It's very low budget but - due to most of the dialogue being in French - it doesn't feel very much like a Dutch movie.
The book it was based on is pretty famous in The Netherlands and unfortunately I believe I already knew about the ending before I got to watch the movie. I've seen it twice and it's pretty intriguing.
I advice you not to watch the 1996 Hollywood remake unless you like to compare different versions of movies.
And yes, people in the late 80s were used to slower movies, even though the 80s were a great time for horror. Films were more about suspense ( a slower build up ) and I think this one needs to be seen as a slow suspenseful thriller with an unescapable ending, more like European art house than main stream.
Is your favorite genre suspense? I don't think I will watch the remake hehe.
Btw, there is a very weird movie I watched recently but decided not to write about, at least not yet. It is from a Russian director, the movie is called Stalker have you seen it? I also have the movie Solaris from the same director and will probably watch it this weekend.
I think you might enjoy the movies from this director. I saw the Hollywood version of Solaris some time ago but I am really interested in watching this earlier and more original version. Also, have you watched the new Devs series? it became one of my favorites. This is the article I wrote about it https://steemit.com/series/@dedicatedguy/devs-the-box-contains-us-the-box-contains-everything-and-inside-the-box-is-another-box
Hey man,
I have been wanting to reply to this for a while ( but I hardly visit Steemit nowadays )
The suspense (sub)genre has definitely been my favorite for a long time. Ever since I saw Hitchcock's 'The Birds' on TV, in my early teens.
Many of my favorite movies fall in that category. In fact, now I think of it, I like it way more than horror ( even though I used to think that it was horror that I loved ).
I definitely know Stalker. Tarkovsky was a legendary filmmaker and movies like these are the kind of food that I devoured in the years that I studied film ( history ) in University ( 2000 to 2007 ). Solaris and Stalker are among my favorite movies ever, also because I love sci-fi and movies that intellectually challenge me without being boring.
I also watched the George Clooney remake of Solaris. It's not bad but incomparable to the original.
By the way, I read the book 'Solaris' by Stanislav Lem ( that Tarkovsky's movie is based on ). It's amazing! If you read sci-fi ( I read a lot of it ), I highly recommend it.
I will check out Devs but must admit that I hardly watch series these days as I really value my time.
Un abrazo and let's connect more on Hive from now on,
Vincent