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Vanishing On 7th Street

VANISHING ON 7TH STREET (eOne, 2010) D: Brad Anderson, w/ Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton. Rating: NNN DVD package: NN Rating: NNN


The power keeps failing. People disappear in the shadows. After three days, the city is depopulated. Four survivors find each other in a bar and try to stay alive.

The looming shadows, empty piles of clothes and anomalies in the sun and power sources make for an intensely chilling and absorbing opening that the movie can’t quite sustain. We’d like to get the big picture, but once the characters get together, the film scales back to questions of immediate survival and bizarre hallucinations interspersed with wonky religious and scientific theories.

Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and 12-year-old Jacob Latimore keep the tension high with solid performances, but best is John Leguizamo as a sweet-natured projectionist who’s the only one with half a clue, partly because he’s also got a concussion.

Director Brad Anderson casts little light on the meaning of it all or the production process. An interview with writer Anthony Jaswinski might have helped.

EXTRAS Director interview, Latimore interview. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

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