Memory

Writer-director Bennett Davlin's adaptation of his own novel is stylish and twisty, but not clever enough to support its more outrageous plot machinations.

While attending a medical conference in Brazil, neuroscientists Taylor Briggs (Billy Zane) and Deepra Chang (Terry Chen) are asked by local doctors to examine a patient whose brain scans show puzzling abnormalities. While examining the comatose man's possessions, Briggs comes into contact with a mysterious white powder and later has a vivid, disturbing dream involving a man in a black coat and a cracked, doll-like mask running through some oddly familiar woods, and a little girl buried alive in a wooden box....