Proving Ground 1

Proving Ground 1 (1994) is a Russian science-fiction oddity you can watch online on iFILM. Teenagers from a juvenile colony become test subjects in their teachers' bizarre experiment and tumble into hallucinations where anything at all goes.

One moment it's the Wild West, the next it's space monsters or the wilderness of some unknown world. One boy imagines himself a cowboy, another Hitler, another Emperor Paul I. Three of the colonists, helped by one teacher, fight to claw their way out of the visions fed to them. A little-known but curious stab at homegrown genre cinema. Stream it online on iFILM.