The Machinist (2004)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 22, 2004

Running Time: 102 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: Spain

starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, John Sharian, Michael Ironside, Larry Gilliard, Jr, Reg E Cathey, Anna Massey, Matthew Romero, Robert Long

director: Brad Anderson

The Machinist

Trevor Reznik, a quiet and reserved loner who works as a machinist, is wasting away from lack of food and sleep deprivation leaving him gaunt and fatigued. After a year of suffering from severe insomnia, he is involved in an accident at the workplace that leaves a co-worker seriously injured. What follows is a dark descent into paranoia, as Trevor's downward spiral leaves him obsessed with finding out the meaning behind the strange and bizarre occurrences taking place around him.

An industrial machinist who hasn't slept in a year descends into a nightmarish internal hell of paranoia, guilt and delusion as he struggles to figure out what brought him to the edge of madness and who (if anyone) is plotting to push him over.

Story

Does hell exist or do we create our own? This is the larger question screenwriter Scott Kosar asks as we watch machinist Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) stumble through his disintegrating world in this psychological thriller inspired by introspective…

PETER TRAVERS - October 14, 2004

Christian Bale (American Psycho) dropped sixty-three pounds off his already trim frame to play a drill-press operator tormented by insomnia. Director Brad Anderson tightens the screws of suspense, but it's Bale's gripping, beyond-the-call-of-duty performance that holds you in thrall.

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