By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The combination of science fiction and survival thriller will be showing next month.
THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT, the latest genre feature from Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley (ECHOES OF FEAR, DARK REMAINS), will have its East Coast premiere at the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction and Supernatural Film Festival. The screening takes place Sunday, April 6 at 6 p.m. at the Stuart Cinema & Café (79 West Street, Brooklyn, NY); tickets can be purchased here. The Avenet-Bradleys directed from a script by Simon Clark and Brian Avenet-Bradley; Anja Akstin, Fred Thomas Jr., Ricky Herrera, Trista Robinson, Corey Landis and Michael Ferguson star; the synopsis: “Kyra [Akstin] and John [Thomas] wake in a strange environment where they are plunged into a terrifying struggle where they can trust no one, not even their own fragmented memories. Now to escape, they must unravel the mystery of who is experimenting on them and most importantly…why.”
“We’re excited for the film to play at this festival,” Brian tells RUE MORGUE. “Philip K. Dick’s writings and the film adaptations from them have been a big influence on me since I was a teen. I made a short science fiction/horror film in high school called FALLOUT that dealt with an advanced but postapocalyptic world and people not being who they seem to be. A lot of Dick’s influence subconsciously seeped into that one and now, many years later, into Lo’s and my new film as well.
“What really drew Lo and I to the story of THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT was the element of unreliable and missing memories,” he continues, “and if you can’t trust your memories, can you even trust yourself and who you think you are? That makes the main characters’ fight for survival and escape take on an added level, and we were excited to explore that visually. The Philip K. Dick Festival is about the best fitting festival we could imagine for the film, and we look forward to seeing the audience reaction and some fun discussion after.”
“We hope the audience experiences a unique, thrilling ride that also poses some questions that makes them think about what makes a person who they really are,” Laurence adds. “I’m also hoping that the themes of the movie linger in people’s minds. I think the movie has something to say about the capitalism of human beings and how people, once they’ve been dehumanized, can easily be exploited.”
