FRACTURED

Count me in for any film with the same premise as in ‘The Lady Vanishes’ i.e. someone vanishing but whose existence is then denied by everyone except the unfortunate protagonist.

In this variation, a daughter, Peri, (accompanied by her mother) is taken for a CAT scan at a hospital, and then disappears.  At least that is what her father Ray claims, despite all the hospital staff denying that his daughter was ever admitted, whilst there is a record of Ray being admitted that day for a head injury.

Peri is at the hospital in the first place because she suffered a potentially fatal fall at a nearby gas station, which we see happen early on, although there is a significant ambiguity as to how badly she is injured.

Ray manages to get a couple of passing cops involved and to be fair to them they do a competent job of trying to get to the bottom of things.  This comes down to either Ray is suffering from delusions, or there is something sinister going on involving the harvesting of body organs,

The director (Brad Anderson) and screenwriter do a good job of keeping us guessing whilst generally playing fair.  

But the film wouldn’t work without a terrific lead performance by Sam Worthington (a new name to me) who makes Ray a believable and (spoiler alert) tragic figure.