There are bound to be many times when you've wanted a loved one or family member to just disappear – people can be so damn annoying can't they? What makes it doubly annoying is the people that do end up disappearing are never the ones you want to.

Mike Flanagan's film focuses on disappearances of the unexplained and peculiar variety.

No one can say that Tricia (Courtney Bell) hasn't been committed about the return of her husband. But after seven long years, it's officially time to move on. Her sister Callie (Katie Parker) travels across the country to be with her during this tough time, as her sister is about to sign the papers that declare he husband missing assumed dead.

Not that Tricia hasn't moved on a bit; after all, she is pregnant with another man's child. Still, the closer it comes to making her husband's absence official, she starts to have visions of him around her.

Whilst Callie is out on a run, she notices something odd about a nearby pedestrian tunnel she runs through. It's naturally a bit creepy, but there's something more disturbing about it. On the way back from one of her runs, she comes across a body lying flat out across her path. She speaks to him briefly, but he doesn't make much sense.

Later on, she finds some bits of jewellery and trinkets in her room, a pile of which she also came across in that tunnel. She doesn't know how exactly, but Callie has a feeling that this particular tunnel has some part to play in not only her brother-in-law's disappearance, but also in other registered missing persons in the area.

I have to say, there's something about this new masseur I'm not completely comfortable about.

For some reason it seems that the horror genre is one of the more popular genres to get made by independent filmmakers, as it feels as if every other release on a weekly basis is a horror film. This is curious really, as you wouldn't expect a decent horror film to be made on a shoestring. The truth is though, that many of them are embarrassingly dreadful, which anyone who may have had the misfortune to stumble across any of those films on the Horror channel can testify too.

About a third of the budget for this feature though was actually raised by a large number of donors on a website called Kickstarter.com. And it has to be said, their money was spent pretty well.

This is less a horror title and more a dark thriller film. The difference no doubt coming from budget restraints as a whole. But Flanagan, who also wrote the film, rings out a lot of unexpected tension from his material, considering his financial restraints.

He avoids predictable jump-out-of-your-seat moments, and allows his intriguing story to draw you in instead. It takes it's time, but he does just enough to make you hang around to the end. Unfortunately the pay-off is disappointing, but it's nice to see a writer/director not rely on cheap shocks and shaky-cams in attempt to scare an audience with a far more interesting creative direction.

So although this film about missing people is also missing a real sense of terror, it still manages to be quietly disturbing.