What we have here is a tragically underrated film of great artistic and philosophical value. Fifty thousand arguments regarding the films meaning and its antagonist have been made. This fact alone proves the films importance. Some people will hate the ambiguity and "shadiness" of this movie... as it is very ambiguous and "shady". These people will despise not having a light shown on the answers that they hungrily anticipate will be fed to them. These people are frustrated. Rather than appreciate what has been given for them to chew on, they react with disappointment. I appreciate that the movie is really well written, the story is solid and highly intriguing, the acting and dialogue are quite good, and the visual effects are well done. I initially viewed it closer to the time of its' release, perhaps 2011- 2012. I enjoyed it a lot, but it vanished from my mind after I finished pondering on it. I found it again, and watched it again only realizing that I'd already seen it before about 1/3 through. Fortunely, it was fresh again to me. This is one of those types of films that I desperately want to have in my collection so that I can revisit them in the future and still be intrigued. It is also valuable to my collection so that I can watch it with another person and use it as sort of a litmus test to gauge their particular belief systems. Some may interpret the event in scientific terms, some on religious terms, some as something else. I think it's an analogy for death and maybe the thereafter. Who can say for sure what awaits us after the darkness consumes us? It is life's greatest mystery. It occurred to me that they may be dying characters in a dead world. Maybe it's then truly hiding in the shadows. It's up to the viewer to decide.

Conceptually, this is a cool movie: all of a sudden, the world is plunged in to darkness. Those that vanish in to the night are never seen again. And those that survive to see the sunrise find that even the sun itself is beginning to disappear, bit by bit."Vanishing on 7th Street" is presented to maximize confusion and to scare the pants off you. With a high-contrast visual style where light sources are constantly blown out, it definitely has a unique look all its own, and the whispering, living darkness will make you think twice about sleeping with the lights off.Here's the problem: adrift in an ocean of style, the movie barely gives you anything to hold on to. Some of it is being cryptic on purpose, and that's fine, but other parts of it just don't have enough meat on their bones. Or, like, uh, any at all.Vanishing on 7th Street doesn't have any characters. This should be obvious enough, as the lights go out barely even five minutes in to the film without establishing anything or any one. It's not until almost halfway through the movie that anything really begins to solidify in to a coherent narrative, and even then, the cast of characters we're given mostly exists as the same "scared survivor" clichés that have become so common in zombie movies: the traumatized orphan, the hardened curmudgeon, and so on. Hope gets lost, nerves get frayed, guns get pointed, and should we leave him? I DON'T KNOW, MAN! WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE! LET'S GO! The movie throws out vague ideas about what *could* be going on, but they never amount to anything more than just suggestions. And so, our characters of one-dimensional stereotypes move from light source to light source, running from shadows, and doing incomprehensible things that jeopardize their own safety for no other reason than to manufacture fake tension.It all feels a little thin -- a spooky concept that just needs to be fleshed out a little more. I'm not asking for it to over-explain itself to death, I'm just asking for it to explain literally anything at all even a little. It doesn't.

Why is it that most of the time, when ideas are there that could prove really constructive in the world of cinema today, they often goes wasted? This film's basic ideas are not bad, and the first few minutes really gripped me in it's potential when the weird things started happening. The Vaninshing pushes the buttons of basic human fears, and does it so well in the beginning. Then all of a sudden the characters, the story and overall reason for things to happen starts to deteriorate. Dumb, silly ideas from the characters being carried out, outright insane actions and the one thing that really bothered me: the strange calm of the characters in spite of what has just happened, and keeps happening. They start talking feelings in the middle of very dangerous situations and on a whole doesn't even reflect on what has happened. No, this was a sad try at what could've been a marvelous movie.

Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)I thought this was very decent.I actually liked the plot of the movie, with darkness that tries to find you and you vanish.I wasn't really on edge of your the seat however there were some really good tense moment that I really enjoyed.But nothing in this movie was scary or creepy but some-how I could not stop watching.I didn't think the movie was that bad at all but I thought worth a watch, Until very the ending, Which I kind of fell flat.