Ration Reality

Anyone who’d ever ridden a subway late at night has probably seen that station out in the suburbs where there’s no passengers, no vendors and almost no noise apart from the screeching and rumbling of the trains. Eerie. If you’ve ever had to get off at one of these still, creepy stations, you know the walk to the surface can be an uneasy one. Any creak or clang, every flicker and flash of the dim platform lights bringing us to full alert; readying us for fight or flight.

Britons Mark Cripps and David J. Ellison exploit the inherent uneasiness of the empty subway stop in the short horror film The Insane. With a genuinely menacing score and shuddersome, dim, washed-out shots straight from the Manchester MetroLink,  The Insane  is a succinct, dread-inducing romp through a nightmarish landscape with a rewarding, if not unforeseeable twist which I won’t betray. Enjoy!

-Soylent Ape

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