Help - Looking for a movie

A few years ago, my Da recorded a movie on telly. Unfortunately, I didn't tell him I wanted to keep it and it got recorded over. Since then, I've been trying to find it on DVD or video but I don't know the name of it or any of the actors in it. So hope this rings a bell for someone here.

It was about a family on a road trip (in America I assume). There was a mother and father, two kids, a boy and girl, and another boy, one of the kids friends.

They are driving through a desert road and stop at a dinner in the middle of nowhere. They are told of an old mining town not too far away and so decide to go see it. This place is totally run down and no one lives here.

While exploring, they find a camcorder and upon playing it, they find movie footage of another family who are in the town and are being terrorised by some unknown phantoms there. They family are shaken by the footage and debate if it is real or not. They then discover that their vehical has disappeared from the street and they are stranded.

They stay the night but weird stuff happens (can't recall what).

The next day, the father and the boy (the friend), decide to track across the desert to get help, leaving the mother and two children in the town. While tracking, they discover a large ring of glass in the middle of nowhere. Upon investigating it, they find a plaque there which says that an atomic bomb was tested here in the 1950's or there abouts. They head on their way.

The mother and children, in the town, go looking for food and the mother falls through some old planks into a mine. While trapped down there, the camera is used to looked through the eyes of some "thing" living down there which closes in on her. you never see the Thing, just through its eyes. Anyway, the kids save the Ma before the Thing can get her.

Back on their tracking, the kid goes over a small sand dune and when the father crosses it, the boy is gone. There is nowhere that the boy could have gone to and he's nowhere to be seen. The father is forced to move on.

Eventually the father comes to a canyon and sees loads of cards down in it, and his family car is there. He goes down and gets it while something hunts him (again, through the eyes of the Thing via the camera, you never see the Thing). He gets the car going and flees. He goes back to the town to collect his family. When they try to escape, an old ruined bus is pushed out to block their path and all hell breaks lose but they escape and go to a town.

In town, while the father is reporting the missing boy and what happened to them, to the sherrif, the mother and the kids order food from a fast food take out. Then son realises that teh woman is the woman from the video they saw earlier, she is from the first family terrorised in the town.

The sherrif takes the family to a hotel for the night but during the night, the Thing appraoches the hotel (camera point of view). The girls wakes up but sees nothing and she tells her folks she wants to leave. So they do.

While leaving the town, the sherrif pulls them over, he has found the lost boy. They collect him but he's not the same, he's very quiet and subdued. As the family drive away from the town, into the night dessert, the Thing runs at the car, it crashes...

The movie ends with the family now residents of the town, working at the cafeteria. A crow watches them. An old man sitting outside looks towards the desert and a horror cloud like thing is roaming the desert.

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Does anyone recognise this movie? Can anyone please put a name to it for me!?!

[newb]

hmmm.....thats a bit vague

[VampiricClown]

Parts kind of sound like The Hills Have Eyes....

But other parts, I don't remember being in it.

Hi.

Thanks for the replies. You wouldn't believe how many folks have said that the movie I'm looking for sounds like The Hills Have Eyes. But sadly, it's not. Of all the folks I've ask, only one guy has said he recalls the movie, saw it himself a few years back, but he can't remember it's name either or any of the actors in it. If I could find one of the actors, I could try and hunt the movie that way.

Thanks, anyway, appreciate the replies.

So, does this movie ring a bell for anyone else?

[VampiricClown]

Another wild guess....Wicker Man (1973)? I haven't seen it yet, I'll check it out tonight, but if the original is as different as everyone says, it does have some of that stuff in the new one. Only slightly different from what you said.

[Marya Zaleska]

I would be interested in this film if someone comes up with a name.

[_____V_____]

The movie was called "Disappearance".

Made for TV-movie of 2002.





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311018/

http://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-...5597665&sr=8-2


Thats your movie.

Fantastic!!! Thank you very much, V. Only seems to be a Region 1 DVD release but I have a USA DVD player so not a problem. Definately going to pick up a copy of it. Really appreciate this.

Thanks.

Paul.

[mutilator666]

yeah, i saw the movia and its called disappearance, really.
but is also true that some pars sound like another movia i saw called the hills have eyes.;)

[bloodrayne]

WOW, that was one hell of a description...Actually made me BUY the damned thing








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