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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Keir Burrows
Production: Uncork'd Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Year:
2016
109 min
94 Views


I know, right?

This is Oxford.

Tracy said her rep said

they'll be arresting someone today

for the internet thing.

Ana, hi. You um... / Don't.

I don't trust you.

I don't believe you,

so just don't, okay?

You heard about the break in?

I did, actually.

A protester, they think, a week ago.

Caught on CCTV, though they

can't make out the face.

Couldn't they? / You muppet.

Why the hell are you breaking...

Something's very wrong

with me, you know this.

Yes, something is.

Because of that.

It's complicated.

I'm sure it is.

It's not what you think.

What do I think, Nate?

Tell me.

Look, I'm like a crazy person.

So whatever you did to me, well done.

It worked. / Yeah.

Ana, there is something wrong with you,

but we don't know how... / You're lying.

You want the project,

but it's my project.

It's mine, and I'm closing it down.

Ana, what have you done?

Hello, somebody call maintenance?

Yes, we need the keys

for the storage room.

Can you open it?

Ana.

Nathan.

I gave you the key for this already.

You said you would bring it right back.

No, I don't think it was...

That's right, darlin'.

We were stood right here.

Look, can you open the door?

Not without the key and

if you've lost the only one,

I'll have to fetch a member of faculty.

That won't be necessary.

We'll find it.

What the hell are you doing?

Are you nuts?

We broke the law!

There's police everywhere,

and you want to bring some,

some pissant farm hand down here.

And what if he goes to the VC?

And the VC goes, gee, heck.

You know, all this kooky

stuff and the government

are investigating us because

for some damn worm virus...

Liv! / F*** you,

you know that I'm brain damaged

and none of you have

done anything to help!

You're not brain damaged, Ana. /

Did I not tell you to shut up?

F*** you both.

Sir, she's here.

Hello, Ms. Carter.

Shouldn't I have a lawyer?

Am I being arrested?

Heavens, no.

No, we simply wish to

ask you some questions.

I mean, you are perfectly entitled

to have a lawyer present.

But in that case, well,

then we'd have to travel

all the way across town

and fill in lots and lots

of paper work, and so on,

and so forth.

I mean, it really is quite dull.

Come.

Please.

Would you like a peanut?

I have this theory that you

can always tell if a man...

Oh, well in your case a woman,

is guilty based on how they react

when the interrogation

officer offers them a peanut.

No, thank you.

No?

Sure?

Suit yourself.

So.

So?

So what do you think?

About what?

Well, do you think you passed

my guilty peanut test or not?

I'm only messing.

I do apologize.

However, you would be

amazed the amount of men

I've had admit to

murdering their own parents

by offering them a peanut.

Would you like a peanut?

"Oh, I killed my mother!"

I mean, it's...

It's like a magic trick.

Anyway.

To business.

Look, mister.

I'm sorry, I'm really busy.

Yes, I know.

You're a hard one to pin

down, keep very strange hours.

I mean, most students

do, but you, you're...

Can we do this another time?

I'm not really... / Have a look at this.

Tell me if you recognize it.

What is this? / I'll be honest with you.

We're not looking for the worm's author.

We know you wrote it,

but what we don't know is what it does.

Come now.

What, you thought you'd

get, oh, 800 million people

to do your homework and

it would stay a secret?

Look, I've been unwell, alright?

But I have no idea what I'm looking at.

You know I'm a chemist,

not a programmer.

All we want to know

is what it is, Miss Carter.

Anarchy?

Clogging up the system?

Are you a part of that? /

I have no idea.

Anarchy? / Well, your friends...

They're not my friends, are they?

Why don't you ask them.

We have gathered here

today for one reason,

and one reason only.

Over 18% of students are scientists.

We have murder on our hands

if we let this stuff go ahead.

Ana!

Ana, everybody.

This is Ana we were

telling you all about.

She's American. / Is she?

She is. / Well, that makes sense.

Decided not to join us in the end, then?

Clearly not, though we did

give you every chance to.

We did, we tried. / What is this?

So, what do we have here?

Half a dozen lab mice?

Only mice. / Only mice.

Then rabbits.

But you've left this section blank, Ana.

What were you doing to them?

What are you doing

to them, Ana, in there?

Witnesses said they

saw you bring a cat in.

But where's the paperwork, Ana?

Where, indeed? / A pet.

That's not legal, Ana.

That's not legal at all.

You should see what they built in there.

Listen. / Should we?

Should we see her lab?

No!

We have everything we need, Ana!

We're shutting you down.

Shut her down!

Shut her down!

Shut her down!

Shut her down!

Shut her down!

Shut her down!

Shut her down! Shut her down! / Aw!

We're only joking, Ana!

Wah-wah.

My notes.

What's wrong with me?

Hi, I think I left

something here last time.

Oh, well come in, come in.

Would you like some tea?

I would love some tea.

Ana!

Hey, look, are you okay? / Peachy.

Where are you?

Can you come back to the lab?

All I wanted was for you

to explain what was going on.

We explained it to you so many times.

Ana, you just keep forgetting.

Look, look, I'm sorry.

Can you just come back to the lab?

Ana? / Goodbye, Nathan.

Ana?

Yes, she does!

Now relax, exhale.

You're screwing with the readings.

Nate. / We phase matter.

We take matter and we pass it through...

Unaltered, pass it unaltered.

Your point?

Numbers really are

dropping, we have to go!

Just matter, right?

We're... / What?

Nothing, no.

Nate?

You owe me a movie, cool guy.

Okay.

And on three, two, one.

271 apparently successful.

Readings inconclusive,

couldn't map the subsets.

The wormhole stays open too long.

Gravitational distortion,

needs to close instantaneously

to do a wormhole.

Guys, we have a problem.

Two, one.

Two, one.

Two, one.

Ana, what are you doing here?

I'm...

I mean, what are you doing here?

It's my room.

How did you know I was here?

It's my room, I was coming home.

You were at the lab.

You were at the lab, how

did you know I was here?

Ana, listen...

How did you know I was here?!

Jesus.

Look, you told me.

You told me you were here.

You're sleeping with Liv,

which I don't give a f*** about.

But Nate, you're not stupid.

You must know how much that hurts me.

I thought you and me, we had...

Forget about Liv, please!

Look, and you're the one

going through my underwear.

So just, enough.

We never realized how badly

this was affecting you.

Affecting, Nate?

Affecting?

I'm losing my mind!

I don't eat, I don't drink.

My dreams are insane.

I have no memories, I have

to make notes all the time.

It's... / You can have them back.

I don't want them back!

Am I insane?

I do things behind my own back and...

Please, just put that down.

Come to the lab.

We can explain it there. / Explain now.

No.

No, you won't remember.

Come to the lab.

Liv has rewritten the algorithm.

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