Disappear Completely

Not to be confused with How to Disappear Completely or How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.

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
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Directed by	Luis Javier Henaine
Written by	Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes Luis Javier Henaine
Produced by	Pablo Zimbrón Alva Gerardo Gatica Luis Javier Henaine
Starring	Harold Torres Teté Espinoza Fermín Martínez Vicky Araico Norma Reyna Quetzalli Cortés
Production companies	Moonlight Pictures Varios Lobos Panorama Global
Distributed by	Mantícora Distribución
Release dates	2022 (2022) (Fantastic Fest) 29 February 2024 (2024-02-29) (Mexico)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

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.^[1][2]

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.^[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[5]

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.^[6] 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."^[2]