Infinity Chamber (Travis Milloy, 2016)

In the near future (doncha just love period dramas?), a  man wakes up imprisoned in a single room with only his computer warden for company, and no explanation as to why he's been put there. Gradually, he starts trying to work out how to escape through his subconscious in the dreams induced by the apparatus around him.
Does this sound familiar? If so, it's because this particularly brand of dystopian nightmare scenario is almost a genre in itself, and the film also owes a large debt to a whole host of precursors, from The Demon Seed to 2001, Total Recall and The Prisoner, not to mention almost every single film where the character can't escape from a time loop (Source Code etc.) and we then watch them swing between determination and despair.
Nevertheless, Milloy has managed to fuse these elements together with enough craft and style that not only does Infinity Chamber feel its own film, but it sucks you in, at least until the point where sheer familiarity with the genre conventions signpost the inescapable twists and the logic starts to totter. Still, it gets full marks for effort.

6/10