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Vanishing on 7th Street (+ Digital Copy) (2011)

Hayden Christensen , John Leguizamo , Brad Anderson  |  R |  DVD
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, Thandie Newton
  • Directors: Brad Anderson
  • Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: May 17, 2011
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004P2VQXO
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,015 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Vanishing on 7th Street (+ Digital Copy)" on IMDb

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Beginning with its title--a combination of promisingly enigmatic and weirdly specific--this ambitious melding of the Left Behind series, Pitch Black, and any number of Twilight Zone episodes has creepy atmosphere to burn, but its refusal to finally turn over its cards may frustrate viewers in the mood for closure. The plot turns on an admittedly monster hook: following an unexplained mass vanishing, a handful of Detroit residents (including Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and an uncharacteristically muted John Leguizamo) find themselves surrounded by leagues of whispering, carnivorous shadows, kept at bay only by the city's dwindling sources of light. Anthony Jaswinski's script drops tantalizing references to religious prophecies, human-made catastrophes, and real-life phenomena (including the still unexplained 16th-century disappearance of the entire Roanoke Colony), but never really seems to fix on the specifics of its particular spooky situation, leaving the audience to fill in an increasing number of blanks. That the film ultimately works as well as it does is due to director Brad Anderson, a filmmaker whose previous work (including The Machinist and the wonderfully upsetting Session 9) has displayed a firm grasp of place. Here, he outdoes himself, creating a barren, unstable metropolis with barely glimpsed slitherings in virtually every corner. If the narrative lived up to its surroundings, this could have been a small classic of the genre. As it stands, it's a case of the frame overshadowing the contents. --Andrew Wright

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VANISHING ON 7TH STREET taps into one of humankind's most primal anxieties: fear of the dark. An unexplained blackout plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, and by the time the sun rises, only a few people remain surrounded by heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. A small handful of strangers that have survived the night (Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore) each find their way to a rundown bar. With daylight beginning to disappear completely and whispering shadows surrounding the survivors, they soon discover that the enemy is the darkness itself.

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34 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This movie starts with an interesting premise which is immediately engaging. Unfortunately, very little happens over the next hour to draw you in. The plot and character development stall quite quickly, and the film drags. I kept watching nonetheless, expecting a big pay-off at the end, which, sadly, never came. The movie ends abruptly with a range of Christian imagery and all major questions unanswered. Frustrating all around.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Too Often Leaves Us in the Dark June 18, 2011
Format:DVD
This film starts with an eerie and inventive premise. It leaves a more haunting, memorable trail than most movies in the genre. But in between its first and its lasting impressions, it somewhat loses its way in the dark.

Too much goes unexplained. For example, we see John Leguizamo stranded in his darkened movie theater one minute - then we next see him lying battered and bruised in an illuminated bus stop shelter. What happened to get him there? In his commentary, Director Anderson says that there was some scripting that would have explained Leguizamo's trajectory, but a variety of constraints prevented this explanation from becoming part of the film. Actually, Anderson thought this was all to the good though - that some things were best left to the imagination. I'm not so sure about that. It seems Leguizamo's navigation of the engulfing, vanquishing night would have been one of the processes most interesting to watch. Without showing such process, the film too often ends up being just abrupt, choppy, and undeveloped.

It also has too many lapses of logic. The creeping darkness doesn't play fair. It shifts its rules of engagement, overwhelming one person, while allowing another similarly situated person to survive, at least for a while. Well, that could be an additional aspect of the evil of the darkness. It toys randomly with its victims, like a cat may or may not toy with a mouse, sheerly on a whim.

Then I had one of my common technical complaints about this film. The DVD often projected as an indecipherable smudge on my TV screen. So it ran as murky rather than sinisterly dark. There is something about the final lighting/filtering process that many modern filmmakers use that causes their movies to be a chore to watch on home TV's. I wish filmmakers would get back to whatever technology was used from the 1920's through the 1960's that allows their films to play as appropriately shaded rather than just obscure when run on a TV screen.

The Director's commentary doesn't add a lot to a viewer's appreciation of the film. Brad Anderson starts out sounding too much like Ben Stein, making a dreary, nasal drone of his narrative. So unless you have a lot of spare time, you can probably skip the commentary and most of the other extras, except for the interviews.

However the Director's commentary does highlight at least one telling aspect of this film and its making. Anderson talks about how apt it was to settle on Detroit as a location for the action. The City itself is perhaps the most fascinating character in the entire movie. It becomes an icon of our crumbling economy, our crumbling culture. Some of the scenes in the movie call for shots of major urban intersections shown desolate, abandoned, post-apocalyptic. Anderson said that he hardly had to clear Detroit's streets and highways of cars and people for these scenes. They are already so often eerily null. So many buildings are already hollow, echoing shells of once vital industries. These shots in and of themselves served as chilling prognostications of what can in reality befall all our cheery, oblivious bustle.

So this movie is overall worth watching - for its darkling premise, and for its stunning views of Detroit.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, tight little film February 26, 2011
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Despite the reviews this is a GOOD movie. It's not a blockbuster and it isn't flashy, splashy teen entertainment, but it IS good. The premise is thought provoking. Why do we exist? Do we do it for ourselves or others? Why is it important to keep on going when there is no hope and no future? Is it simply enough to say "I am"? I think that this film does a fine job of highlighting our place and confusion in the world we face every day. Is there a God? Is it all just science? There are hints and explanations that seem to justify either or even justify both at the same time. However, the truth is that we just don't know. We can't know until the shadow catches up with us...and that's what we fear. The end of ourselves

4 star rating for me. I'd give it 5 but it's a little too smart for it's own good. Glad I caught it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been a classic.
The movie had so much promise only to be undone by irrational behaviour of the characters and plot contrivances impacted by the writer. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Ray Keeper Jr
3.0 out of 5 stars Vanishing on 7th Street
I chose this rating because, the movie was alright but, it was kind of low budget. I enjoyed watching all the characters but, other than that it was mediocre.
Published 14 days ago by Jerlisha Cummings
2.0 out of 5 stars waste
I was as confused as the actors in the movie. I literally had to read up on "CROATOAN" in order to be able to understand the concept of the movie. Read more
Published 21 days ago by M. Ruiz
4.0 out of 5 stars Metaphysical
the metaphysical meaning behind the story was right for the times we are existing in... It was a good movie
Published 1 month ago by Seta
3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK
Slow moving, decent acting, but no resolution in the end. I would put it in the B-rating for horror/sci-fi movies.
Published 2 months ago by Bobby D. Hoffman
4.0 out of 5 stars not bad
This movie was pretty decent. I would recommend it to anyone that likes the mystery horror genre. Very similar to Phantoms... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Matthew Motter
2.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Movie Review! - [...] - @tss5078
Vanishing On 7th Street had a lot of possibilities, but it was done so narrow-mindedly, that the film just becomes a complete waste of time. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Todd Smith
2.0 out of 5 stars What??
Couldn't figure out what was causing the "Vanishings" Oh well, it was ok background noise while working. Read more
Published 3 months ago by DMTN
2.0 out of 5 stars The Devil is in the Details
I initially watched this movie because the general storyline seemed to hold some promise. Once started I continued to watch the movie hoping that eventually something would happen... Read more
Published 3 months ago by David Bower
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good Movie
I wasn't expecting much. However, I was pleasantly surprised.

You have to immerse yourself in this movie to enjoy it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jazz1152
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