subxerogravity Although, I did have to watch it more than once to really feel it.John Leguizamo,Hayden Christensen, and Thandie Newton are the only ones left when some sort of dark force takes everyone in the city. They have to keep close to a light source to prevent the shadows from grabbing them. This struggle gets harder as the sun rising in the sky becomes more limited and the shadows play tricks on them in order to lore you into it's clutches. It is the type of movie you don't want to see in the dark or you can get freaked out by the shadows, which is why it's brilliant that Leguizamo's character, Paul opens the movie. Paul's a film projectionist at the local AMC (A big shinning product endorsement and I'm not even sure if this movie played in theaters). Leguizamo also gives, hands down the best performance of all the three adult actors playing a man not fully happy with his lonely existence making him more accessible to be taken by the shadows.Three people along with a boy, trapped in a bar that has the only one light source in the city, trying to figure out what's going on, and attempting to find a new light source in a desperate attempt to see if their love ones still exist. It's actually scary seeing only four people in a empty city trying to fight off the night.Your fright level may depend on your belief system. The film is smart to leave the purpose of the shadows vague, and allow you to come up with your reasoning and what makes you scared.It's decent enough to take a look at.

atierneycollins I expected a fairly B movie experience and I was rewarded with a B+ experience. All the great things about a B movie, with pretty good acting, and a very creepy edge. A lot of "thrillers" or suspense films that run through our horror genre these days have all run to be predictable and not that scary. I give this one 6 stars out of 10 (though I might have given it more for personal preferences) and a very approving nod to the creepiest shadows I have seen in a movie in a while. While humanoid, the shadows don't move like an actor or human shadow but more like a mannequin, and succeeded in giving me the heebie jeebies more than once through the movie.

danielepinat Vanishing on 7th StreetAn excellent Sci-Fi thriller yet with many questions that have no answers to certain questions a viewer may pose and the ambiguous message behind the story makes this movie a ''what should not be done in film making''.Now, as for answers on why everyone on earth vanished except a select group and why they have survived has yet to be explained only to have a hint from a newspaper cut-out mentioning the nuclear war possibility that Luke Ryder (Hayden Christensen) finds on the bar's wall that even as the story develops the characters give it a try in order to explain it like , the extraterrestrial phenomenon or the innuendo on the rapture and finally the CROATOAN hypothesis.. By the end of the film the questions remains, Why did they survive? No clear answers and to why did everyone disappear? Ouf!!!!!The second problem is the message. What is it? What is the viewer supposed to get out of the movie? The last scene shows the two surviving human, a twelve year old boy and an 8 year old girl. They leave the church under a gorgeous sun and the viewer is shown a tree then a horse and apples on the ground. The horse is eating the apples and has a saddle on it which says Chicago Police. If I'm to give my personal opinion on the the message it would be that it represents a new era of civilization that will fall again: the two children representing Adam and Eve. The tree, the Garden of Eden's forbidden not to touch tree, the apples that have fallen representing the fall of man and history to repeat itself by the children's descendants. The horse could represent the snake, because the snake tempted Eve and because the snake showed its good side Eve fell for it. In this case, the horse has the good side printed on the saddle and the horse carries the mortal sinners, the kids, on its back. Why didn't the young girl eat the apples with the horse? As one can see, my interpretation is an interpretation leaving place for much more. And, not a pleasant one to have a solid discussion on what this movie is supposed to bring as a message. Why discuss futility since the discussion will lead to nowhere. Probably this film was made for just pleasure. no deep thinking which it succeeded to do if it was the aim.However, when the film ended I said: Bof….. If this is today's trend in movies to have the public leave the theatre and say Bof! Without answers to questions it may bring, then there is a problem with the movie. I mean if I'm to pay $15 to see a movie, as a client, I need to have my money's worth such to be entitled to have a story that can make me go further than just having seen a film..

atinder 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.