Gyllenhaal delivers as repulsive antihero

WITH his pasty complexion, creepily obsequious behaviour and preference for scurrying around in dark, dirty corners of the city, Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the archetypal LA lowlife, a human cockroach and social outcast with no scruples who doesn't hesitate to offend (or worse) anyone in order to make a buck.

Bloom is the embodiment of a real creep and Nightcrawler is his story - one we are compelled to watch in much the same way that people are inclined to slow do…