# The Vanishing (2019)

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**Runtime**: 108 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Mystery
**Directed by**: Kristoffer Nyholm
**Written by**: Celyn Jones, Joe Bone
**Starring**: Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells, Søren Malling, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Gary Lewis

> *What's left when the light goes out?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

October, Scottish coast. A lantern’s slow pulse through fog.

Three silent men on a rock where no ships land spot footprints in the wrong direction.

One man starts leaving his own prints just to watch them vanish.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, slow-burn

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