People are voting emotionally.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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.

Vanishing on 7th Street is another non mainstream supernatural thriller. However this film is a disappointment. Director Brad Anderson's film is a conventional genre exercise, but the choices he and screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski make cripple the exercise right off the bat, and the film never overcomes the built-in handicaps. In short, the menace the film is built around is never menacing, and that's not because of the concept so much as the execution. There's something creepy about the notion of evil that hides itself in any shadow in a world where light is slowly slipping away, and there are a few moments in the film that suggest just how a subtle, creepy version of that film might play. Although there are some moments of unintentional comedy played by Hayden Christensen as the other members, Vanishing doesn't provide much or anything new. As pointed out by many, the ending seemed to be unfinished as it wraps everything up with many unanswered questions.

This is another psychological thriller/horror type movie that you hope has some sort of awesome ending that will tie things up, but instead ends with a bunch of symbolism completely unrelated to anything really meaningful...If this movie stayed with the whole mysterious 'Croatan' thing, then it might come off as a reasonable horror/thriller movie with no ulterior motive (like many other movies in its genre; just meant as something fun to watch). But instead, the director pathetically attempts to add some religious symbolism in, to desperately try and make the movie come across as somewhat intellectual. Seriously, Adam and Eve (James and Briana) being left to start afresh after the rest of society is punished for sinning or something? Yawn. Been done countless times before in zombie, apocalypse, killer-virus, killer-animal, horror, thriller etc movies... Any sort of reason to the characters disappearing is put aside when James repeats Paul's lines 'I exist'. James survives, while Paul doesn't. So, the whole 'believing in yourself is all you need' theme is flawed... The characters' family/partners are literally the ones that kill them. Like, they actually kill them. If this was meant to be a theme, it was portrayed so explicitly that it wasn't interesting to consider. This movie needs to either try harder with the metaphors, symbolism and plot, or not try at all. The only thing that saves this movie from a lower rating from me is the visual effects. The mood created by the lighting and shadows is really cool; it doesn't feel cheap or cliché- horror-ish. I thought the lights always flickering on and off was great - it didn't just happen when it was convenient for the plot (like so many other horror/thrillers). The whole setting felt like it was in limbo. Some of the other reviews say that the director is pointing the finger at us relying on fossil fuels (bad) to stop us being consumed by nature or something - REALLY? That is the point of this movie!? No, sorry, it isn't. If it was, then wouldn't be some sort of consequence of using fossil fuels? You are thinking way too hard about this movie. It hasn't got anything that insightful to offer...

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.