Anecdotes

Was the director of the uncompleted River Phoenix film, "Dark Blood".

Claimed to have witnessed the then Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon personally shooting two Palestinian children from close range near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp in 1982. The Israeli government accused Sluizer of libel.

Sluizer was offered by an American TV network to do a second remake of "Spoorloos" this time going back to the original ending, but it didn't happen.

Father of assistant director Anouk Sluizer.

Member of the jury at the ShortCutz Amsterdam Film Festival from 2013 to 2014.

Studied under Jean Renoir and Alain Resnais at the Paris Film Academy between 1954 and 1956.

Directed both the critically acclaimed The Vanishing (1988), and the 1993 American remake.