paulofilmo wrote:Loved the purgatorial atmosphere of The Machinist, and rated it a few tiers higher than the PSI.
Much of the unheimlicheness derives from
Because the film was shot almost entirely on location in Barcelona, Spain, the production designers had to painstakingly re-create the look and feel of Los Angeles with many "everyday Americana" items in both interior AND exterior shoots. This included cigarettes, alcohol, street signs, traffic signals, public telephones, retail signage, automobiles, license plates, and also shooting in what writer Scott Kosar called "some of the worst areas of Barcelona".
It looks wrong, but the brain simultaneously wants to believe.
Coupled with the expressionistic horror feel redolent of vampyr/nosferatu--it's one of the more interesting thrifty efforts from the last decade.