Described as in the vein of Looper and “Black Mirror”, “Mainline” is a time-travel story that explores the dark side of advanced technology. “Mainline” will have its world premiere on October 14th at Screamfest, the nation’s largest and longest-running horror and sci-fi film festival, playing alongside highly anticipated genre titles like Leatherface, Tragedy Girls, and Netflix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1922.
“Confined to his makeshift lab, a reclusive bioengineer must grapple with the gruesome and deadly consequences of his injectable, time-traveling serum.“
A lifelong sci-fi and horror fan, writer/director Eric Kleifield spent a year developing the film’s time-travel mechanics: “It took a lot of narrative experimentation, and many headache-inducing diagrams, to create a new take on time-travel that feels fresh and packs an emotional punch. ‘Mainline’ shows how even 30 minutes of contained, controlled time-travel can have unpredictable and deadly consequences. I’ve always found time-travel to be an inherently dangerous and scary concept, so ‘Mainline’ pushes that to the extreme.”
The world premiere is set for October 14th, 2017 @ 2PM (Short Film Block #2) – TCL Chinese Theaters, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028.
