Disappear Completely (Spanish: Desaparecer por completo) is a 2022 Mexican supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Luis Javier Henaine, who also co-wrote the film with Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes. It stars Harold Torres.
Disappear Completely premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2022. It received a theatrical release in Mexico on 29 February 2024 by Mantícora Distribución, and was released on Netflix on 12 April 2024.
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Plot
After visiting a crime scene, Santiago, an unscrupulous tabloid photojournalist, becomes cursed and begins to gradually lose each of his five senses.
Cast
Harold Torres as Santiago
Teté Espinoza
Fermín Martínez
Vicky Araico
Norma Reyna
Quetzalli Cortés
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 13 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film a score of three out of four stars; he compared it favorably to the works of John Carpenter or Wes Craven, praising its cinematography and Torres's performance. IndieWire's Alison Foreman gave the film a grade of "B–", likening it to the American films Drag Me to Hell (2009) and Nightcrawler (2014), and writing that, "its skin-crawling presentation (you will feel, smell, and even taste a few scenes) and uniquely perverse consideration of a terrifying concept make it worth seeing."