The Vanishing (Spoorloos)

Cork International Film Festival kick off their 2023 year-round programme of special screenings and events with a short season of cinematic thrills, suspense and terror!

It is best to know very little about George Sluizer’s thriller, other than it’s about a couple on vacation – the woman goes missing and her partner becomes obsessed with finding her. Highly celebrated at the time of release, it was subsequently remade in the US, albeit very badly and with a changed ending. The original remains a slow-burning, intense thriller, and 35 years later the ending still has the power to shock.