🎥 The Vanishing (1988)

Twilight Express

Rex (Gene Bervoets) and Saskia (Johanna Ter Steege) are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.  🎥 The Vanishing (1988)

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00:00The man gradually realized that he seemed to have some perverse tendencies.

00:03He enjoyed drugging himself heavily, rendering himself unconscious,

00:06and then calculating how long the effects would last.

00:09Even more bizarrely, he often talked to the air as if inviting invisible people into his car.

00:13After they got in, he would pretend to close the door while secretly locking it,

00:16then abruptly grab the neck of the empty space and pull out a drug,

00:19as if he were actually drugging someone.

00:21You might think he was a fool, but no, he was just a complete and utter pervert.

00:25Every day, Mike would drive 10 kilometers away to repeat this routine.

00:28He did this to practice how to drug and kidnap a strange woman in a crowded place.

00:31However, when he was truly ready to put his plan into action,

00:34his wife accidentally discovered his secret.

00:36She noticed that Mike's car was accumulating an extra 10 kilometers of mileage each day.

00:40At first, she merely suspected that her husband had a mistress.

00:43Mike, however, easily deceived her by claiming he was just going to KFC.

00:46From that day on, Mike began to carry out his evil plan.

00:49But since it was his first time committing a crime and he lacked experience,

00:52his obvious unease and deliberateness immediately alerted the person he tried to lure into his car.

00:56The woman politely declined and his attempt ended in failure.

01:00However, Mike wasn't discouraged by this.

01:02Instead, he felt an inexplicable excitement.

01:04Throughout the entire process, his expression remained calm and his heart rate never exceeded 100.

01:09After summarizing the lessons from this failure,

01:11Mike returned home and began meticulously preparing various luring tactics.

01:14He practiced every day, continuing to try to get passers-by into his car.

01:17Although he occasionally got slapped by the boyfriends of his targets, he enjoyed it.

01:20With each attempt, his tricks became more and more skillful.

01:23Until one day, Mike decided to strike again.

01:26He had his eye on a new target,

01:27but discovered that she was actually his neighbor just as he was about to make his move.

01:30In that instant, he immediately abandoned the idea.

01:33Unexpectedly, the neighbor mistakenly thought Mike was a taxi driver and kindly suggested he

01:36try his luck at a gas station.

01:38After all, there were many people there and he might encounter a suitable passenger.

01:41It was this unintentional reminder that led a vibrant life to its end.

01:44Mike immediately drove to the gas station,

01:46bringing a specially made plaster cast and pretending to have an injured and inconvenienced hand.

01:50He took advantage of women's kindness to seek help.

01:52However, after successfully tricking a woman into his car,

01:55Mike made a fatal low-level mistake.

01:57He went to the back of the car, quietly poured the drug onto a handkerchief,

02:01and was about to return to the car to complete the final step.

02:03When he suddenly sneezed, Mike instinctively covered his nose with the handkerchief.

02:07But when he came to his senses, he realized the handkerchief was already soaked with the drug.

02:11As a result, he let his prey escape with his own hands.

02:13While washing up, Mike even laughed out loud at his own blunder.

02:16But as he was about to leave the gas station, he casually bought a cup of coffee to refresh himself.

02:20Suddenly, the woman next to him struck up a conversation, wanting to get some change from Mike.

02:24Little did she know that this seemingly trivial matter would plunge her into a dangerous abyss.

02:28Initially, Mike had no intention of targeting her.

02:31But the woman suddenly complimented his keychain for being exquisite.

02:34As it happened, Mike had an eccentric nature and couldn't stand people praising him.

02:38So he deliberately deceived the woman, saying he had many similar keychains in his car and could give her one for free.

02:43The woman willingly followed Mike to his car. At first, she maintained a high level of vigilance.

02:47But upon seeing the family photo in Mike's car, she completely let her guard down.

02:51However, the moment she sat in the car, Mike anesthetized her with the drug.

02:55Mike knew the woman's boyfriend was not far away, so he immediately started the car and left.

02:59At the same time, the woman's boyfriend, John, finally realized that his girlfriend had not returned

03:03from the convenience store for a long time, and a sense of anxiety arose in his heart.

03:07John searched frantically, but couldn't find any trace of his girlfriend.

03:09He kept asking passersby, and even though some people said they had seen her,

03:13no one paid much attention to her whereabouts since they didn't know each other.

03:16Just like that, John's girlfriend seemed to vanish from the world,

03:19and John's nightmare quietly began from that moment.

03:21Three years passed quietly, and John still hadn't stopped searching for his girlfriend.

03:25He posted missing person notices everywhere and even spent money to appear on news programs.

03:29However, what he didn't know was that Mike had also seen this news.

03:32During this time, people kept providing leads to John, but no one ever truly showed up for the appointments.

03:37Even though he knew the other party definitely wouldn't appear, John still went as agreed,

03:41because he firmly believed the mastermind was nearby.

03:44Until the last time, John finally couldn't bear this torture anymore and started shouting loudly.

03:48The person who had been tormenting him from behind was none other than Mike.

03:51Faced with the nearly broken John, Mike's twisted psychology was still not satisfied.

03:55To pursue thrills, he even personally found John and confessed everything.

03:59Mike claimed to be the one who kidnapped Mary.

04:01To make John believe him, he described Mary's appearance and physique in detail.

04:05Upon hearing these details, John completely lost control.

04:08No one knew how he had endured the torment of his girlfriend being missing for three whole years.

04:12He unleashed all his anger on Mike.

04:14And Mike didn't resist at all while being beaten and kicked because for him,

04:17there was nothing more exciting than this.

04:19At this moment, John was desperate to find out his girlfriend's whereabouts.

04:22He could only follow Mike to a wide open space.

04:24Mike told him that as long as he drank this cup of coffee,

04:26he would be able to see his girlfriend's experiences.

04:28At first, John was full of caution and didn't drink it.

04:31However, when he walked to a tree, his defenses instantly collapsed.

04:34This was the exact place where he and his girlfriend had once parted,

04:37and they had even buried two coins under the tree.

04:39His longing for his girlfriend left his heart unsettled for a long time.

04:42Afterward, he got into Mike's car and drank the coffee.

04:45Soon, John fell into a deep sleep.

04:46When he woke up, he found himself buried underground.

04:49At that moment, he finally understood everything his girlfriend had experienced.

04:53He killed one of her friends.

04:54He killed two of her friends!

04:56I just had a white man of his debt.

04:58He killed one of her friends!

04:59He killed one of her friends!

05:00It was the only one I had told her to run away from a game to his brother.

05:02Three of us!

05:04And only one of us husband, he killed one of those three,

05:07and five, six people killed one of us.

05:10All right, we're still here!

05:12I was just back to life.

05:14Do the hell!

05:16And only two of us,

05:17not only one of us.

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