winner of the HR Giger Award "Narcisse for the Best Fantastic Feature Film" NIFFF - Switzerland

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2004)

This film just won the HR Giger Award "Narcisse for the Best Fantastic Feature Film" and the "Silver Méliès Award" at the NIFFF 2004 (Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival) in Switzerland. The very dark story with excellent pictures tells about Trevor Reznik, a machinist, who isn't able to sleep for months (the reason for this will only be explained at the end of the film). He is exhausted and causes an accident at work, where one of his colleagues loses an arm. Slowly he becomes paranoid and strange things happen around him. In Europe we call this kind of movies "Mindfucker"-Films (in the US you would probably call it "Mind*****"-Films - but at the end it's the same...). Director Brad Anderson plays with the viewer and you never know what's real and what's not. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a usual the white trash slut and Christian Bale's performance is troubling. To see this thin man, only being bones and skin (like a KZ-survivor) is really a "tour de force".