![]() ![]() These kinds of films are usually a blast to watch, because really we're in that room along with the subjects trying to piece together the clues and figure out what the heck is going on. Brought into the fold by Dr Phillips, (played to deadpan, creepy perfection by the great Peter Stormare), she is tested on her clinical and physiological observation skills, totally unaware that she's witnessing an underground MK-ULTRA experiment. On the other side of the glass fishbowl is Emily Riley (played by Chloe Sevigny), a fiercely ambitious military body-language expert who is on the job interview of a lifetime. They have also been screened as people who won't be missed. They are all volunteers - a rag-tag group of down-on-their-luck regular people who are looking for a little extra cash. Unlike the above mentioned Saw, or even the Cube trilogy, the four characters who find themselves guinea pigs do not wake up in a room without a memory, or have no idea how they got there. The set up of The Killing Room is a little different than most of the latest people-in-a-room thrillers. ![]() It's a classy independent thriller all the way which, while not perfect, is well worth a spin. While incredibly violent in tone, it doesn't indulge in too much gory imagery. For viewers who like the Saw franchise but not necessarily all that stomach churning torture porn The Killing Room is probably a safe bet. The Killing Room, a new thriller from the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, works under the assumption that these experiments are still going on under-the-radar and hypothesizes what one particular station might be trying to do to people. Long story short, the government eventually shut all MK-ULTRA stations down in the 70s and destroyed most of the evidence of it even existing. Honestly, as f-ed up as it sounds, I'm not making this up. Citizens who signed up were fed all kinds of drugs, like LSD and then shown disturbing images or hypnotized or much much worse. There were research stations all over the States, each testing different things and none of them really knew how their work effected the whole or influenced a final master plan. The code name for the covert CIA mind-control and chemical research program was called MK-ULTRA and basically it was like an evil version of the Dharma Initiative. Back in the 50s and 60s the American government conducted a rash of freaky experiments on unsuspecting citizens. ![]()
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