Exclusive: Malin Akerman and Lorenza Izzo on Escaping The Aviary

“I love a good psychological thriller,” Malin Akerman says, beaming through bright eyes and white smiles, though there haven’t been many psychological thrillers like The Aviary. The new (and first feature) film from writer/directors Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite may be a great psychological thriller movie, but stands apart by taking the term ‘psychological’ quite literally. So literally, in fact, that the thrills exist solely as a byproduct of the characters’ states of mind, with the film actually beginning after the kinds of events most thrillers would spend their whole runtimes on.