dark, moody, pulls you right in and never lets go

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2020)

Solitary, sleep-deprived Trevor Reznik is an emaciated industrial factory worker who, if he were any thinner, would cease to exist. Struggling to keep his job and haunted by repressed memories, he's slowly unraveling into a nightmarish world of delusion and paranoia, but why? Is someone chasing him? Are all the people he knows somehow in on it? While there are clues at his disposal, trying to decipher them could very well drive him off the deep end. Steadily bleak, unnerving psychological thriller recalls something out of The Twilight Zone, but it's mesmerizingly shot and edited with plenty of twisty, mind-boggling turns in the story that make it fascinating from start to finish. The frighteningly cadaverous Bale gives a (literally) barebones portrayal of a man wrestling with his demons, effectively contributing to the unhinged tone of the picture. ***