Anti Matter (AKA Worm) is a sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale. Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who - or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.
amnesiac noir whose underlying conceit is rooted in physics and metaphysics... reimagines the Oxford-penned Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, complete with its own caterpillar, cat, white rabbit & (worm)hole through which our little girl lost falls.
The film does a pretty good job of escalating the suspense until we get to the payoff scenes. Yaiza Figueroa does a fine job as the film's main character, and writer/director Keir Burrows does a nice job maintaining the mystery and suspense.
A swift combination of smarts, horror, and action, writer/director Keir Burrows' clever science fiction indie starts like Shane Carruth's award-winning 2004 film "Primer" but becomes its own unique take on the consequences of opening up black holes.
This is what losing one's mind and self feels like, when a lack of empathy from trusted confidants can turn madness into violence... art-house psychological horror at its finest.
Quibbles aside, the movie is consistently involving because it invites the viewer to explore the implications of this technological breakthrough alongside the main character.
