The British horror film 'City Of The Dead', made in 1960, centres around a young woman searching for her sister who goes missing from a hotel early on. It was released before Psycho :eek:
Michelangelo Antonioni's 'L'Avventura' from the same year focuses upon a group of friends, one of whom goes missing, on a small island. As the film goes on the missing girl become increasingly unimportant to the characters.
Another little-seen British film, 'Something To Hide' from 1971, hinges on the suspicion that Peter Finch has killed his drunken blowsy harridan wife Shelley Winters in the opening scene.
'And Soon The Darkness' is probably one of my most spooky British favourites, in which one of two young British girls goes AWOL on a cycling holiday in France.
The excellent 1973 TV movie 'Dying Room Only' uses the plot of a partner going missing in unfamiliar territory, and everyone denying ever having seen them.
Trini Lopez in the Dirty Dozen. He appears all through the training scenes but when they go on their mission he's not there. There is a casual mention he was killed during the parachute drop.
In reality, he had a hit with the song "If I Had a Hammer" and started demanding more money so the producers killed his character off.
'And Soon The Darkness' is probably one of my most spooky British favourites, in which one of two young British girls goes AWOL on a cycling holiday in France.
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Have you seen the 2010 remake of this film ? What a pile of crap:mad:
In RoboCop 2 there's a character called Catzo (viewers have described/may know him as 'the Elvis guy') who disappears half way through the film. He's never seen or heard from again. There is apparently a deleted scene which explains his disappearance/death and the disappearance of Lewis from that point on until near the end of the film. Hell, even RoboCop disappears for almost 25 minutes during the latter part of the film!
Janet Leigh disappears in "The Fog", supposedly because there was no money left to film any of her other scenes.
Joanna Cassidy disappears for no reason other than sloppy plotting in "The Ghosts of Mars".
Harry Dean Stanton seems set to play a major role in "Christine" but vanishes for most of the movie.
It seems to be a John Carpenter tradition.:)
Peter the psychologist in The Room. He falls over and looks disgruntled, then is never seen again. Kyle Vogt apparently couldn't stand to be in the film any longer, which is a shame because he was easily the best actor in it There's actually a theory that he was killed off-screen by another character, who similarly is never seen again
Frenchy disappears in Grease 2 at around the half-way mark. Seems odd that they got her back to do very little.
Vince Vaughn in JP2 definitely counts. Alessandro Nivola in JP3 is worth a mention as he's seemingly killed off but then pops up, improbably alive, at the very end, presumably as a response to test screenings.
Frenchy disappears in Grease 2 at around the half-way mark. Seems odd that they got her back to do very little.
I forgot about Frenchy. She's at the start of the film meeting Michael as he gets off the bus, then appears in a chemistry class for a moment near the middle, then she's gone. What was the point in paying Didi Conn to come back for what amounted to about 45 seconds of screen time, if even. :rolleyes:
Dianne in Sean of the Dead: she flees the Winchester pub to look for David; on the dvd extras it is revealed that she escaped to safety by taking refuge up a tree.
Have you seen the 2010 remake of this film ? What a pile of crap:mad:
No, and I don't need to to visualise what it is going to look like - shaky camera, 'hip' snazzy editing with a cut every 2 seconds, and all filmed too darkly, in shades of green and brown. That's about the norm for the horror/thriller genre these days. I'll stick with the beautiful, crisp, sunset-drenched langorous atmosphere of the original's deeply focused and textured mood-setting photography and ambience.
Interestingly enough, the T-1000 touched him on the way out of the arcade, so why didn't he disguise himself as that kid, walk up to John and just kill him? Was it because he was ginger?
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and just to shot it in there
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
I think she stood too near the scenery and got eaten by Al Pacino.
Michelangelo Antonioni's 'L'Avventura' from the same year focuses upon a group of friends, one of whom goes missing, on a small island. As the film goes on the missing girl become increasingly unimportant to the characters.
Another little-seen British film, 'Something To Hide' from 1971, hinges on the suspicion that Peter Finch has killed his drunken blowsy harridan wife Shelley Winters in the opening scene.
'And Soon The Darkness' is probably one of my most spooky British favourites, in which one of two young British girls goes AWOL on a cycling holiday in France.
The excellent 1973 TV movie 'Dying Room Only' uses the plot of a partner going missing in unfamiliar territory, and everyone denying ever having seen them.
In reality, he had a hit with the song "If I Had a Hammer" and started demanding more money so the producers killed his character off.
Have you seen the 2010 remake of this film ? What a pile of crap:mad:
Joanna Cassidy disappears for no reason other than sloppy plotting in "The Ghosts of Mars".
Harry Dean Stanton seems set to play a major role in "Christine" but vanishes for most of the movie.
It seems to be a John Carpenter tradition.:)
Did he drown in the shipwreck? TBH - I hadn't spotted him on the ship before it sinks.
Vince Vaughn in JP2 definitely counts. Alessandro Nivola in JP3 is worth a mention as he's seemingly killed off but then pops up, improbably alive, at the very end, presumably as a response to test screenings.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Frantic
The Lady Vanishes
All films with people going missing as a key element to the plot (rather than just lying neglected on the cutting room floor :rolleyes:)
No, and I don't need to to visualise what it is going to look like - shaky camera, 'hip' snazzy editing with a cut every 2 seconds, and all filmed too darkly, in shades of green and brown. That's about the norm for the horror/thriller genre these days. I'll stick with the beautiful, crisp, sunset-drenched langorous atmosphere of the original's deeply focused and textured mood-setting photography and ambience.
I think he was arrested off-screen for hair crime. That ginger mullet was a disgrace.