Taglines: Escape the prison of a killers mind.
A scientist invents a technique to enter people’s memories deep within their subconscious when their mind is at its most vulnerable state. When he is tasked with entering a convicted criminal’s mind to see whether he committed murder, he is faced with his most dangerous and risky memory extraction ever.
Extracted, also known as Extraction in the UK, is an independent American science fiction thriller directed and written by Nir Paniry. Sasha Roiz stars as a scientist whose consciousness becomes trapped in the mind of a convict (Dominic Bogart) who volunteered to be a part of an experimental procedure.
Tom, a scientist, invents a machine that can insert a person into the subconscious mind of another person. Desperate for funding to complete his prototype, he is forced to accept money from an anonymous investor. When the investor threatens to pull out, Tom reluctantly agrees to a demonstration weeks ahead of schedule. The investor turns out to be an official at the Department of Corrections who wants to use the machine to extract involuntary confessions from convicts.
Initially repulsed by the idea, Tom’s friend, an entrepreneur, convinces him to proceed, and Tom enters the mind of Anthony, an addict who is suspected of killing his girlfriend Adrienne. Though Anthony volunteers in order to prove his innocence, Tom is able to walk through Anthony’s fractured memories and prove his guilt. However, when Tom tries to return his consciousness to his own body, the machine malfunctions and traps him in Anthony’s mind. Unable to leave, Tom passes the years by watching Anthony’s memories while his body remains in a coma.
Meanwhile, Anthony returns to jail and, despite his father’s lack of faith in him, still maintains his innocence. When his father gives him a box of photographs, Anthony happens to recall a memory as Tom watches it. Inside the memory, Anthony stares in shock at Tom, something that Tom believes to be impossible. Convinced that this will allow him to communicate with Anthony, Tom haunts a commonly-recalled memory and waits for Anthony to stumble on him again. When they make contact, Tom explains his situation and asks for Anthony’s help.
Anthony agrees and sets up a meeting with Tom’s wife, Abbey. With Tom’s help, Anthony is able to convince her to set up another experiment with the machine, though she must agree to give the technology to the Department of Corrections in order to get authorization. However, Anthony delays the experiment and demands another chance to prove his innocence. Although angry at Anthony’s betrayal, Tom is powerless to refuse. With Tom’s help, Anthony pieces together more details and remembers being attacked by a former accomplice.
Encouraged by this breakthrough, Anthony escapes from custody and tracks down his friend, who reveals that Adrienne was prostituting herself for drugs. His friend maintains his innocence and suggests that Anthony killed her when she revealed this to him. Unwilling to accept this, Anthony attempts to kill him, and both are wounded. Worried that he is dying, Anthony abandons his revenge and instead returns to Abbey, whom he believes to own a prototype of the machine. With Tom’s help, Anthony is able to guide Abbey through the experiment and free Tom.
Anthony dies from his wounds, but Tom is finally reunited with his family. Haunted by merged memories, Tom makes contact with Anthony’s father, Martino, who reveals that he set up his son in the belief that jail would finally allow Anthony to clean up. Finally realizing that Anthony was innocent all along, Tom pieces together the last few parts of the repressed memory: Adrienne breaks up with Anthony because of the guilt she feels over cheating on him, and when Anthony confronts her, she commits suicide.
Extracted (2013)
Directed by: Nir Paniry
Starring: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Richard Riehle, Nick Jameson
Screenplay by: Nir Paniry, Gabriel Cowan, John Suits
Production Design by: Sarah M. Pott
Cinematography by: Mark Putnam
Film Editing by: Seth Boston
Costume Design by: Sami Martin Sarmiento
Music by: Tim Ziesmer
MPAA Rating: R for language and some violence.
Studio: Phase 4 Films
Release Date: July 26, 2013
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