posted on April 24, 2002 04:08:48 PM new
It was a made-for-TBS movie that appeared this past weekend. It reunited Susan Day and Harry Hamlin as married people on a vacation. They are with his 2 kids and another teenager friend.
They are touring Nevada and seek out a ghost town to take pictures. They find the town (except for cobwebs) just as people left it. Food still on restaurant tables, calendar set to 1948. When they go back to the street, their vehicle is missing. Cell phones don't work because of the mountains. While continuing to explore, they find a tape that fits their video camera. It was left from the previous visitors and shows a family much like their own. Only the members of the family disappear one at a time. The tape ends abruptly with the last person screaming.
Lots more happens, its just I don't understand the ending.
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[ edited by Valleygirl on Apr 24, 2002 04:21 PM ]
posted on April 25, 2002 05:47:59 AM new
Valleygirl,
Saw your post yesterday, then noticed that "Disappearance" was back on the tube last night, so I watched it just to see what it was about. I can see why you were confused. Everything was moving along just fine in typical radiation-mutant-movie fashion until about the last 10 minutes, and then I became totally confused. Makes no sense to me what-so-ever.
If you haven't seen this movie, don't bother to do so.
Someone who is good at picking the hidden meaning out of novels and movies will have to give this one a go. I never was any good at that myself. I read and watch movies just for the pure enjoyment of escapism. Pondering them endlessly afterwards to delve the hidden meanings and trying to determine what the author really meant to say by this or that to me is boring.
posted on April 25, 2002 09:29:26 PM new
Oklahoma: Thank you. With movies like "Big Chill" and "Peggy Sue got Married" being in my top 10, I figured I must have lost it.
I'm glad someone else says, "what?" I mean, who was in the cave/mine? Who were the people in the diner, and why did it end that way?
posted on April 26, 2002 10:04:11 AM new
I think maybe you were supposed to guess what was living in the town. I don't understand why the graves. The "monster" must turn the people into zombies that don't ever leave the town. That's MHO. I really liked the movie until the last 10 minutes but I'm a horror fan. Id like to know what can outrun a car like that.
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posted on April 26, 2002 10:45:57 AM new
At the time, I assumed the graves were the people on the video tape. But then they were found working at the restaurant. So, are we supposed to assume that as each "family" is taken over that they become the residents of the town and the prior waitress and cook are killed, thus the graves? Then why steal the cars, to keep the people in the town? If so, then why kill them?
For people who wanted to flee so bad, it was weird to see them working in the town. Unless, it wasn't them, but their bodies. The unseen force might be so ugly or distorted that they took over their bodies, i.e. "invasion of the body snatchers".
The movie was good until the end when it just got ridiculous. I used to live in the CA Desert area and we have lots of ghost towns (Garlock, etc) that kinda resemble the area in which the movie was filmed.
I guess what frustrated me is the movie was interesting, kinda believable, then the ending just blew it. It makes no sense.
posted on April 26, 2002 10:54:56 AM new
That could explain the graves, the latest people take over for the people that have been there longer. Maybe there is only so much room and as new people arrive that number are killed?
I think the cars were stolen so the people couldn't leave. And after they changed, they didn't want to.
