Few scenarios fill parents with as much dread as the prospect of a missing child. Whether a temporary mix-up at the mall or an experience far more emotionally traumatic, it’s a possibility that can never be completely ignored.
With The Vanished, filmmaker and actor Peter Facinelli channels that fundamental fear into a compact, consistently unpredictable thriller that provides few reassurances, but plenty of surprises.
Facinelli’s version of this disturbingly familiar narrative takes place almost entirely outdoors in the Alabama woods, not far from Tuscaloosa.
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