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Fear of the dark has always been a primal instinct for humanity. The darkness hides any number of unknowns, such as nocturnal predators or obstacles to walking. We usually overcome our fear of the dark in early childhood, because there isn't really anything dangerous about the dark.
...Or is there?
A power outage has just hit Detroit, and almost the entire population has vanished, leaving behind empty clothing, abandoned cars, and an assortment of non-organic parts. A spare handful of people are left behind, forced to scavenge for light sources to survive. This time, the danger isn't ''in'' the dark. It ''is'' the dark.
''The Vanishing on 7th Street'' (2010) is a post-apocalyptic thriller film directed by Creator/BradAnderson and starring Creator/JohnLeguizamo, Creator/HaydenChristensen, and Creator/ThandieNewton.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AbandonedHospitalAwakening: Rosemary, the only nurse left in a suddenly abandoned hospital, finds a patient has awakened on the operating table--immobilized and with his chest clamped open.
* AndIMustScream: Paul recounts his experience of being briefly taken by the shadows into a suffocating place of darkness and voices. He tried to scream, but there was no sound.
* ApocalypseHow: Whatever the phenomenon is seems to be happening all over the world (Planetary) and affecting primarily humans ([[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Societal Collapse]], bordering on [[ApocalypseHow/Class3A Species Extinction]]). Batteries, the power grid, and gasoline are losing their ability to provide energy, and the daylight hours are growing shorter and shorter. Curiously, there are various animals, including various dogs and a horse, that seem to move about just fine, implying that only humans are being targeted and thus keeping it from being a ApocalypseHow/Class5 Apocalypse.
* BigBlackout: The phenomenon starts with a mysterious power blackout that could be worldwide.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Of the survivors we see after the initial blackout, the first to vanish in the dark is a black security guard. It's worth mentioning that of the main cast,[[spoiler: James]] is the only survivor.
* BodyHorror: The blackout leaves a heart surgery patient abandoned by the surgeons, his chest clamped open, and himself ''fully conscious''. Mercifully (sort of), the next flickering of lights takes him.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: James survives the Darkness' attack and hitches along with another survivor]], but the daylight hours are getting shorter and electrical devices are losing their ability to provide energy, which means that outside of something along the lines of DivineIntervention, everyone who survived the first blackout will find themselves living on borrowed time before the Darkness claims them as well. [[spoiler: Also, all of the other survivors are dead]].
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Whatever caused the power outage also caused all the cell phones to stop working. In one case a satellite phone indicates a dead battery.
* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: The day of the blackout, Luke finds a recording from a survivor in Chicago who seems to have some ideas about the phenomenon. Said survivor is giving a phone number when the power goes out, cutting off the last digit.
* CosmicHorrorStory: There are no answers of ''what'' is the darkness. Only thing that is sure is that anybody who has survived the first taking will run out of luck eventually (even ''daylight hours'' will [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eventually run out]]).
* CrazyPrepared: The bar the protagonists find themselves in was owned by a paranoid survivalist type, which is why it's well stocked and has plenty of fuel for the backup generator. Shame he couldn't prepare for the laws of nature suddenly falling apart...
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Or rather, darkness equals vanishing without a trace.
* DoomedHurtGuy: [[spoiler:Paul]]
* DwindlingParty: As the darkness picks off the survivors one by one.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Left behind to indicate where people were when the blackout hit.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A popular theory among the survivors, though they can't quite agree on what it means, if anything.
* EldritchAbomination: The Darkness itself is a sentient malevolent force that snatches people.
* TheFaceless: The shadow-creatures are faceless silhouettes if they take on a coherent shape, usually in an apparent mockery of humans.
* HappyFlashback: James has one, remembering just a few days ago when the bar his mother worked at was filled with light and people.
* HardToLightFire: One survivor assembles a gasoline-powered torch to keep them at bay, then asks his companion for her lighter. She realizes she'd left it behind at their previous hiding place, so both have to race the shadows into a nearby clinic where she used to borrow matches from one of the nurses.
* HollywoodDarkness: Zig-zagged. At times there is ''just enough'' light to see the actors due to their own portable light sources, but at other times it goes absolutely pitch-black. That's when people vanish.
* HumanoidAbomination: The shadow-creatures manifest as human silhouettes when they do manifest.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: While it is a given that lots of children and babies vanished offscreen (Rosemary's son Manny being one of them), [[spoiler: James]] survives to the end of the movie, as does a little girl named Briana.
* LightsOffSomebodyDies: More accurately "light off, somebody vanishes", but the idea is still there.
* LivingShadow: The shadow-creatures, whatever they are.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While Luke is wandering the abandoned city, a plane silently nosedives behind him until it meets the ground with a fiery explosion.
* MinimalistCast: Once the blackout happens, we see a grand total of five characters remaining--seven if you include the guy from Chicago and a random Japanese reporter with no speaking lines, both on recordings.
* NoEnding: The movie ends with no explanation for the phenomenon, just a lot of theories, and an uncertain future for the known survivors.
* NothingIsScarier:
** The empty streets of Detroit, complete with abandoned cars and empty piles of clothing.
** We never learn what caused the phenomenon.
** What are the shadow creatures? What do they want? Nobody knows.
* RealEventFictionalCause: At the start of the film, Paul is seen reading a book about the disappearance of the colonists at Roanoke, something that he compares the current Eldritch event to. The fact that James finds "Croatoan" -- a phrase carved into a tree near the abandoned colony -- graffitied onto a bridge implies that this was what happened to the colonists and that history is repeating itself.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Inverted. The last shot of the film shows the survivors riding a horse as dusk falls, but they're headed east, so the sun sets behind them. The usual feeling of closure that accompanies the trope is also pointedly absent.
* ShoutOut: Luke is played by Creator/HaydenChristensen, who is most famous for playing [[Franchise/StarWars someone whose son is named Luke]], [[spoiler:and ends up consumed by darkness]].
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: Paul believes that the shadows are behind the disappearance of the colonists at Roanoke and is not the only one judging by the sign saying "Croatoan", the word that the colonists left carved in a tree.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: After the Darkness takes the other protagonists and James finds himself cornered, he whispers "I exist." to himself over and over, in a last ditch attempt to stop it from claiming him. It works.]]
* SurvivalMantra: "I exist." Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
* VoiceChangeling: The shadow-creatures can mimic voices to trick potential victims into approaching
* WeakenedByTheLight: Good news: the shadows can be driven off by light. Bad news: the chemical reactions that power the lights are failing.
* WasOnceAMan: It's implied that the shadow creatures are those who have been taken by the darkness. This theory is supported by the fact that shadow creatures taking the forms of those vanished start appearing after they disappear.
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Fear of the dark has always been a primal instinct for humanity. The darkness hides any number of unknowns, such as nocturnal predators or obstacles to walking. We usually overcome our fear of the dark in early childhood, because there isn't really anything dangerous about the dark.
...Or is there?
A power outage has just hit Detroit, and almost the entire population has vanished, leaving behind empty clothing, abandoned cars, and an assortment of non-organic parts. A spare handful of people are left behind, forced to scavenge for light sources to survive. This time, the danger isn't ''in'' the dark. It ''is'' the dark.
''The Vanishing on 7th Street'' (2010) is a post-apocalyptic thriller film directed by Creator/BradAnderson and starring Creator/JohnLeguizamo, Creator/HaydenChristensen, and Creator/ThandieNewton.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AbandonedHospitalAwakening: Rosemary, the only nurse left in a suddenly abandoned hospital, finds a patient has awakened on the operating table--immobilized and with his chest clamped open.
* AndIMustScream: Paul recounts his experience of being briefly taken by the shadows into a suffocating place of darkness and voices. He tried to scream, but there was no sound.
* ApocalypseHow: Whatever the phenomenon is seems to be happening all over the world (Planetary) and affecting primarily humans ([[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Societal Collapse]], bordering on [[ApocalypseHow/Class3A Species Extinction]]). Batteries, the power grid, and gasoline are losing their ability to provide energy, and the daylight hours are growing shorter and shorter. Curiously, there are various animals, including various dogs and a horse, that seem to move about just fine, implying that only humans are being targeted and thus keeping it from being a ApocalypseHow/Class5 Apocalypse.
* BigBlackout: The phenomenon starts with a mysterious power blackout that could be worldwide.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Of the survivors we see after the initial blackout, the first to vanish in the dark is a black security guard. It's worth mentioning that of the main cast,[[spoiler: James]] is the only survivor.
* BodyHorror: The blackout leaves a heart surgery patient abandoned by the surgeons, his chest clamped open, and himself ''fully conscious''. Mercifully (sort of), the next flickering of lights takes him.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: James survives the Darkness' attack and hitches along with another survivor]], but the daylight hours are getting shorter and electrical devices are losing their ability to provide energy, which means that outside of something along the lines of DivineIntervention, everyone who survived the first blackout will find themselves living on borrowed time before the Darkness claims them as well. [[spoiler: Also, all of the other survivors are dead]].
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Whatever caused the power outage also caused all the cell phones to stop working. In one case a satellite phone indicates a dead battery.
* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: The day of the blackout, Luke finds a recording from a survivor in Chicago who seems to have some ideas about the phenomenon. Said survivor is giving a phone number when the power goes out, cutting off the last digit.
* CosmicHorrorStory: There are no answers of ''what'' is the darkness. Only thing that is sure is that anybody who has survived the first taking will run out of luck eventually (even ''daylight hours'' will [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eventually run out]]).
* CrazyPrepared: The bar the protagonists find themselves in was owned by a paranoid survivalist type, which is why it's well stocked and has plenty of fuel for the backup generator. Shame he couldn't prepare for the laws of nature suddenly falling apart...
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Or rather, darkness equals vanishing without a trace.
* DoomedHurtGuy: [[spoiler:Paul]]
* DwindlingParty: As the darkness picks off the survivors one by one.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Left behind to indicate where people were when the blackout hit.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A popular theory among the survivors, though they can't quite agree on what it means, if anything.
* EldritchAbomination: The Darkness itself is a sentient malevolent force that snatches people.
* TheFaceless: The shadow-creatures are faceless silhouettes if they take on a coherent shape, usually in an apparent mockery of humans.
* HappyFlashback: James has one, remembering just a few days ago when the bar his mother worked at was filled with light and people.
* HardToLightFire: One survivor assembles a gasoline-powered torch to keep them at bay, then asks his companion for her lighter. She realizes she'd left it behind at their previous hiding place, so both have to race the shadows into a nearby clinic where she used to borrow matches from one of the nurses.
* HollywoodDarkness: Zig-zagged. At times there is ''just enough'' light to see the actors due to their own portable light sources, but at other times it goes absolutely pitch-black. That's when people vanish.
* HumanoidAbomination: The shadow-creatures manifest as human silhouettes when they do manifest.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: While it is a given that lots of children and babies vanished offscreen (Rosemary's son Manny being one of them), [[spoiler: James]] survives to the end of the movie, as does a little girl named Briana.
* LightsOffSomebodyDies: More accurately "light off, somebody vanishes", but the idea is still there.
* LivingShadow: The shadow-creatures, whatever they are.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While Luke is wandering the abandoned city, a plane silently nosedives behind him until it meets the ground with a fiery explosion.
* MinimalistCast: Once the blackout happens, we see a grand total of five characters remaining--seven if you include the guy from Chicago and a random Japanese reporter with no speaking lines, both on recordings.
* NoEnding: The movie ends with no explanation for the phenomenon, just a lot of theories, and an uncertain future for the known survivors.
* NothingIsScarier:
** The empty streets of Detroit, complete with abandoned cars and empty piles of clothing.
** We never learn what caused the phenomenon.
** What are the shadow creatures? What do they want? Nobody knows.
* RealEventFictionalCause: At the start of the film, Paul is seen reading a book about the disappearance of the colonists at Roanoke, something that he compares the current Eldritch event to. The fact that James finds "Croatoan" -- a phrase carved into a tree near the abandoned colony -- graffitied onto a bridge implies that this was what happened to the colonists and that history is repeating itself.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Inverted. The last shot of the film shows the survivors riding a horse as dusk falls, but they're headed east, so the sun sets behind them. The usual feeling of closure that accompanies the trope is also pointedly absent.
* ShoutOut: Luke is played by Creator/HaydenChristensen, who is most famous for playing [[Franchise/StarWars someone whose son is named Luke]], [[spoiler:and ends up consumed by darkness]].
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: Paul believes that the shadows are behind the disappearance of the colonists at Roanoke and is not the only one judging by the sign saying "Croatoan", the word that the colonists left carved in a tree.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: After the Darkness takes the other protagonists and James finds himself cornered, he whispers "I exist." to himself over and over, in a last ditch attempt to stop it from claiming him. It works.]]
* SurvivalMantra: "I exist." Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
* VoiceChangeling: The shadow-creatures can mimic voices to trick potential victims into approaching
* WeakenedByTheLight: Good news: the shadows can be driven off by light. Bad news: the chemical reactions that power the lights are failing.
* WasOnceAMan: It's implied that the shadow creatures are those who have been taken by the darkness. This theory is supported by the fact that shadow creatures taking the forms of those vanished start appearing after they disappear.
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