A listing of American horror director took a stab at "missing" you will be treated to a generic rock soundtrack, pouty 20-something stars and a little blood and / or guts for your trouble.
Instead, the son of British suspense, now available on IFC on demand, trying to gain the heights.
Who knew that we miss these Stateside horror conventions obsolete?
There are few things more frustrating than a cooler without fear ambitious single. "Missing" for all its noble intentions, make publicly until the end credits.
The young Harry Treadaway stars as Matthew, a teenager still mourning the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom. It was supposed to be watching over Tom about the time of his death, if his guilt is almost as palpable as the evil he feels the absence of his brother.
But Tom is really gone? Matthew begins to hear Tom talk to him, whispers in the night or even faint echoes in the VHS of the newsletter of her disappearance.
Matthew Best Bud ( "Harry Potter" pillar Tom Felton) thinks he's gone Daft and his father is too sad for us to offer much help. But Matthew continues to hear - and see - traces of Tom. But the guilt of giving her imagination something terrible to avert?
"The Missing" was filmed almost entirely in Inka-vision, where there is precious little color and too many scenes resemble a night sky without stars. It's all to establish the right mood, and to be fair Director Johnny Kevorkian (what a beautiful name for a horror maestro) shady atmosphere cooling.
But Kervorkian film moves at a glacial pace slower, and the occasional jolts felt imported from cheesy horror remake, not the tense character study attempted here.
