The detective in our film is both the antagonist and the protagonist; whilst he is awake and doing investigative work he is the protagonist, but when he is asleep he is the antagonist because he goes around killing people.
When the detective is in antagonist 'mode' it is at first unclear as to why he is doing it, but I think it's a kind of impulsive thing; he has no motive and he doesn't have a killer mentality, this is what makes him a different kind of antagonist to other films of the same genre. In Reservoir Dogs the killing is all done for a reason .i.e someone owes someone money or killing off the competition; whilst Reservoir Dogs is largely a crime thriller there are scenes in which it crosses over to the psychological genre i.e. the torture scene in which "Stuck in the middle with you is played" in the background. The villains in Reservoir Dogs do not have dual mentality's.
The character Jack in the shining is very similar to our detective character, whilst he is not killing in his sleep he is unknowing being controlled by evil forces. Also The Shining is a psychological thriller because Jack is terrorizing his family.
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