There's a plot turn later in the movie that's a total howler, but this is an absorbing and unique motion picture. Great cast and welcome musical interludes by The Zombies

This feels like a 2 hour Twilight Zone episode. With that in mind, yeah, it gets a bit corny (especially the final moments), but it's also extremely entertaining. Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea and Laurence Oliver all have solid performances. There's a lot of nice photography too, which was unexpected.

The twist ending's too bizarre for its own good and the audio is a little shaky at times, but the photography, music, and performances more than make up for it, although it's hard to see Keir Dullea as anyone other than Dave Bowman after all these years.

Wow! I was so shocked at the suspense and the final outcome. Definitely recommend it for any Hitchcock fans or fans of psychological thrillers.

Effective thriller. Carol Lynley is surprisingly good, Kierr Dullea is fine also, and Olivier of course steals the show.

Now, let me get this straight: during the first half of this film, I was mesmerized, thinking "what a flawless masterpiece!". Then, things changed to a dual point of view. SPOILER: Then, a predictable plot twist came by, then another, and there ya go: a would-have-been-perfect movie is almost ruined by an awful ending. But, it got a lot of style, anyway anyhow.

Engaging mystery right up until the big revelation. I find it unbelievable that the brother, who is a level-headed guy through the first two acts, suddenly regresses to the mental age of a six year-old. It just seemed lazy. Ditch the child's play and wrap it up with an age-appropriate finale, and you have a great flick. As it is however, completely forgettable.

Very inventive for its time (and risque), Bunny Lake is Missing provides a taut and tense story which takes some creepy and unexpected turns.

With a cast and camerawork of this level, I can only marginally fault the predictable twist. Has that unusual atmosphere you only get from these 60/70s sleeper hits.

I liked it, even despite the bizarre ending and strong similarities to The Lady Vanishes.

The twist is bizarre and at odds with everything we've seen and learned about the characters up to that point, but the film's no less entertaining for it - by the end it's just gleefully embraced the madness.

A difficult film to score. The central mystery is engaging enough and the crisp black-and-white photography is lovely to look at, but the abrupt shift in tone and character two-thirds of the way through is hard to take seriously. Once the twist comes, you have to reconsider everything that came before and it comes off as a bit contrived. The final scene, though, is so fucking bizarre I actually found it quite unsettling.

This has a strangely flimsy middle, but the beginning excellently sets up the dark, nightmarish plot and the ending turns incredibly and lovably bizarre and exciting. Carol Lynley is great, but I don't think Olivier gets much to do. His presence is barely felt. There's also some fascinating, occasionally great camerawork and appearances by The Zombies that are worth noting.

It takes a long time for any considerable dramatic or psychological weight to settle in, and by then it begins to telegraph. It doesn't help that Preminger shoots it like a hack, every exaggerated sweep of the camera calling attention to itself. The acting is mediocre, with the notable exception of Olivier. It skirts by on morbid curiosity until that god awful final sequence.

A very well-made mystery/thriller. The ending, which some have deemed corny, is also somewhat bizarre, for better or worse, but altogether this is effectively fascinating and mysterious.

Before Jodie Foster lost her daughter in "Flightplan" and after, too a lesser degree, "The Lady Vanishes", Bunny Lake went missing. What do these films all have in common besides their plots? Not one of them know how to end this premise. Great cinematography, iffy acting by Keir Dullea and annoying cameo by the Zombies.