| Disappear Completely | |
| Director: | Luis Javier Henaine |
| Distributor: | Mantícora Distribución |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Language: | Spanish |
Disappear Completely (Spanish; Castilian: Desaparecer por completo) is a 2022 Mexican horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Luis Javier Henaine, who also co-wrote the film with Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes. It stars Harold Torres as Santiago, an unscrupulous tabloid photojournalist who, after visiting a crime scene, begins to gradually lose each of his five senses.
Disappear Completely premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2022.[1] [2] It received a theatrical release in Mexico on 29 February 2024 by Mantícora Distribución,[3] and was released on Netflix on 12 April 2024.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10.[4] 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.[5] IndieWires 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."