- 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.
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