Trevor Reznik is a tortured man, unbearably thin and experiencing the sort of sleep deprivation that makes your average insomniac seem narcoleptic, but life takes an even darker turn for the worse when his fatigue causes a gruesome accident at work. Soon after Reznik finds himself the focus of a ghostly apparition and a sinister scribbler but it is difficult to know if guilt and exhaustion have finally manifested themselves as full blown paranoia or whether his nightmare reality is genuine. The Machinist is a dark un-nerving psychodrama from Brad Anderson performed with brooding conviction by the main stars.