Very well executed

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I came across this after reading River Phoenix's interview talking about this movie which persuaded him to accept the role, Boy, in Dark Blood which is also directed by George Sluizer and I'm so happy that I got the chance to watch this wonderfully beautiful movie.The tension slowly builds up with Saskia telling Rex his dream of being stuck in an egg, then them being stuck in a dark tunnel, Rex dreaming the same thing and the antagonist being pulled over by the police for not wearing his seat belt gets away by pointing that he's claustrophobic; I don't know why I didn't see the ending coming. As a claustrophobic myself, I found this movie very very disturbing, and by disturbing I mean.. Good.It's not a horror movie to make you jump outta your seat from time to time, but it'll haunt you for a long time.

Rex and Saskia are driving on a holiday. They have a fight and make up. At a gas station, Saskia disappears. Rex relentlessly searches for her. Raymond is outwardly a normal family man. In secret, he's been methodically preparing to satisfy his evil desires. He had kidnapped Saskia. Three years later, Rex is still looking for Saskia and has new girlfriend Lieneke. Evenutally Lieneke leaves him. He gets an offer from Raymond to reveal the truth of what happened.This is a cold-hearted character. The situation is intensely harrowing. It's not really a mystery because the killer is revealed quite early on. What it does is it shakes the viewer to the core. Raymond is unrelenting. We see this through Rex's eyes and it's a runaway train. The tragedy unrolls and the audience is helpless in its face.

I read the synopsis, saw the description of the ending, and had to get a hold of this movie. Once I did, the slow pace of the beginning threw me off - brilliant - but the director then started unraveling things very slowly, each scene perfectly segues to the next. The flashback scenes are so well done, they explain so much about the killer with so little dialogue. The delivery, the mise en scene, geez it was overwhelming. The end was prolonged JUST enough, the pacing is really good. KUBRICK thought this was the scariest film - including his own The Shining - that he'd seen, and that tells you right off the bat how incredible this movie is. The suspense is notched up so slowly you don't even realize how wound up you are at the end! And this film is so good, you don't notice the horrid 80's euromusic in the score lol.

Certainly not the most spell-bindingly entertaining film I've seen this month/year, but still a remarkable piece of work nonetheless.In fact it seems rather out-of-date at times, as well as being a dreaded 'foreign language' film with subtitles, and positively meandering in places, so what's the attraction? Fabulous character development and a sinister story.If you've already seen the film then you'll remember it as a pretty straightforward plot with a couple of major questions, what happened to Saskia and will Rex find out?However, what makes this film thought provoking is the character development. Or rather, the non-development of the sub-characters. I questioned the Director's choice of cast at the end of the film - the boring, rather unattractive wife; the dull, rather obedient future girlfriend; the unstated nature of the entire film, until I realised that that's the point - an intelligently directed film which makes you ponder the previous events after its conclusion and delve deeper into the curious personalities of the equally unstable male protagonists.I suppose you could classify 'Spoorloos' as a mild thriller on first viewing, but gradually ramp that opinion up to unnerving horror over time. A rare film that I'll no doubt watch again just to re-analyse my initial understated judgement of the main characters.