A scientist's string theory experiment goes wrong when his brane explodes.
With an opening description like that, how can I not watch?
Harlan it brought to the House and must penetrate it to find Ansom. He is guided by Aclima and often stopped by Sessler... and encounters them time and again as he seeks deeper into changing realities and seeks the truth inside to find out what happened to the people in the explosion.
Ben Wheatley wrote and directored this, and while he lists a number of influences at the end, he misses the main obvious one: David Lynch. This is attempting to be Lynchian as fuck, with black and white film, odd angles, odd transitions and odd filmography all around. All transports are actual models (and clearly obviously so), there is tons of green screen (again, not hiding it), and all dialogue is dubbed over the actors talking (again, could have been recorded at the time, but not the way the film wants to do it). With all sorts of influences, this is distinctly odd, but the main chap is there.
We have only four actors, who play all sorts of parts (although not heavily credited we also have Bill Nighy as the Voice - there's no mistaking that speech). I easily recognised Noah Taylor, and maybe Sam Riley.
Weirdness... but I can't entirely say it pays off...