Vanishing on 7th Street

2011 • 91 minutes

About this movie

An unexplained blackout plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, and by the time the sun rises, only a few people remain, surrounded by heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. A small handful of strangers that have survived the night (Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore) each find their way to a rundown bar. With daylight beginning to disappear completely and whispering shadows surrounding the survivors, they soon discover that the enemy is the darkness itself. 2010 VANISHING ON 7TH LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Ratings and reviews

The start was very promising with just the right amount of creepiness & a couple of good "jump out of your seat" frights. But that's about it. I should have read the critic reviews before paying to watch this so-called thriller that doesn't even come up to B-grade standards. Overall it's a bit of a yawn. The lights go out & everyone (almost) disappears. Then an unnatural darkness descends on the city as day turns into night and the few survivors take up refuge in a bar. What are the shadow creatures that stalk them? Can they escape the city? If so, will there still be survivors in Chicago? Will they have the answers to this mystery? Unfortunately there are no answers and the whole thing just becomes more confusing as time goes on. Then the movie finishes and you realize it's a thinly veiled "Noah's Ark" metaphor - the world is 'cleansed' and hope springs forth through innocents protected by the church. John Leguizamo was (as always) very good in his role as the conspiracy-theorist movie theatre projectionist, and Thandie Newton, well, she's always nice to look at.

Bloody boring. No anticipatory measures, no real storyline. Turned out of hallway through. The cat tried hard but the movie itself is very trying. Waste of money

Waste of money, no ending and no explanation for what happened in movie…what a lemon