The Vanishing

Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boys girlfriend Carlin that he was ...

The River King features suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, suspense and disturbing

The central plot of the film (and the novel on which it is based) is from an archetype Urban Legend related to the Paris Exposition of 1901. A woman and her daughter travel to Paris for the exhibition, and whilst the woman unpacks, the daughter goes to a nearby shop. When she returns to the hotel, the mother is gone, and no one in the hotel remembers having seen her. The idea also formed for the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Terence Fisher's So Long at the Fair (1950), Robert Fuest's And Soon the Darkness (1970) and Philip Leacock's Dying Room Only (1973).