Vanishing on 7th Street

IMDB
First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

This film has no pay off for it's admittedly very well done and surprisingly scary premise. That and the kid behaves completely irrationally at the end of the film in order for some scares and cheap audience manipulation with regards to the fate of other characters. It was exceedingly annoying.

No explanation is given as to why these events are occurring, which I can deal with, but then not to have enough character or other plot lines for some kind of emotional or thematic pay off at the end makes this film feel unfinished.

The threat of darkness and shadows is remarkably scary and will probably make you a little unnerved by the dark again for a short while. I really did like the way the FX worked and technically the films is great. But the way the film just dies at the end makes it hard to recommend, which is a shame.