{"id":35875,"date":"2021-10-05T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35875"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:27:55","slug":"man-on-a-train-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/man-on-a-train-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on a Train (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manonatrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manonatrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manonatrain.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manonatrain-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manonatrain-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a>Part of director Jack Shanks\u2019 \u201cMini-Nightmares\u201d short horror series, \u201cMan on a Train\u201d is a beautifully timed, well paced, and excellently edited scary film. It\u2019s short, it\u2019s sweet, and delivers on a fright that\u2019s completely unexpected.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Esme, a young woman (Tameka Mortimer) with anxiety boards a train to commute on the way home. Despite feeling a sense of nervousness she takes solace in the chatter of various passengers. In an instant she finds herself alone on the cart, and notices she\u2019s drawn the attention of a weird man who is sitting just out of sight from her.<\/p>\n<p>Director and writer Jack Shanks\u2019 short film is brilliant in the way it touches upon the deeply embedded anxiety of the voyeur becoming the prey of a sinister viewer. She\u2019s someone who watches but hesitates in being watched; that is until someone or something notices her, and she has no idea how to repel its eyes. What I also love about \u201cMan on a Train\u201d is that we\u2019re never quite sure what circumstances have introduced themselves. Is this all a paranoid delusion of Esme\u2019s?<\/p>\n<p>Has she unknowingly fallen asleep and is having a nightmare? Or did her anxiety allow something to arise from a shroud to prey on her? This is a short film that will give the viewer considerable anxiety and goosebumps as Shanks knows how to draw out the anticipation of an explosion. I was admittedly looking away in fear during certain moments. I can\u2019t wait to see if Jack Shanks has more scares like \u201cMan on a Train\u201d waiting for audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of director Jack Shanks\u2019 \u201cMini-Nightmares\u201d short horror series, \u201cMan on a Train\u201d is a beautifully timed, well paced, and excellently edited scary film. It\u2019s short, it\u2019s sweet, and delivers on a fright that\u2019s completely unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[367,477,501,703,938,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-35875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35877,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35875\/revisions\/35877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}