Tuesday, August 24, 2021

The Vanished (2020)

A couple goes on a trip with their young daughter at Thanksgiving. Within an hour of stopping at an RV park, their daughter has disappeared and the sheriff is on his way. 

The parents are frantic and suspect everyone. Is it the unfriendly RV park owner? The odd handyman? The couple in the RV next door who can’t have children? Or is it the escaped prisoner that could be somewhere nearby?

As the movie winds on, we are none the wiser. The parents frantic need to find their child becomes dangerous when they accidentally kill more than one person who they suspect knows what where their child is located.

The strangest thing about this movie is although the police go looking for the child, they seem less apt at police work than the parents.  They don’t seem to search any of the houses or RV’s on the property. Are we supposed to assume they’d already checked them before they went into the woods? 

It kept my attention and I give the filmmakers credit as I never saw the ending coming. 

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