The Killing Room
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
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- Cast:
- Nick Cannon , Timothy Hutton , Shea Whigham , Chloë Sevigny , Peter Stormare , Clea DuVall , Bill Stinchcomb
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Before the boards were shut down there was a lot of debate regarding this movie as most who have seen it I personally think didn't understand who was the test subject.The premise is that this movie is based on project MKUltra and to test the human mind to see if it will be passive to what is actually going on in and around the characters environment.The movie need a directors commentary to substantiate or debunk my theory on this, as I have been on record before the movie is about Miss Reilly.
Decided to watch because of Chloe Sevingy and the good reviews on here, but I just finished watching and well i am quite disappointed. I didn't find it psychologically thrilling, suspenseful or original at all.I kept waiting for something to happen, some revelation or surprise, but nope.Had the potential to be really good if they took it all the way but i feel like they only took it half- way, if that, perhaps i was expecting more brutality, or something, not that what happened wouldn't be horrible for the lab rats, but eh. I find the idea interesting but, i feel cheated out an hour and a half. I would say don't bother watching,
Sorry but I use headphones and pretty much any movie like this one is impossible to watch.The Actors whisper their lines as quiet as possible and then screaming blaring sound effects.So if you want to watch this movie with headphones, you have to keep your finger on the volume and crank it from 25% to 100% back to 25% back to 100%. Stop, rewind crank the volume and hear what they said. Crank it back down to 25% because your eardrums are being blown.After having to rip the headphones off three or four times because of it going from actors who are whispering to extremely loud sound effects I just gave up. Screw this movie.
This was a pretty good movie, one of the reasons being that it made me think again on the essence of enemies in anyones own life.At a certain point in the movie Dr. Phillips tells Emily Reilly something in the order of that there's always someone like him at the end of the enemy, doing similar experiments with a similar purpose. Then I thought how I would have responded to Dr. Phillips; I would have asked him: "Who's the enemy?!". Regardless of what he would have answered, I would have told him my answer: "With all due respect sir, I am convinced that the enemy is in YOURSELF ... and it's name is ... FEAR". FEAR for the need to defend yourself in situations as depicted in this movie, and FEAR for yourself to do really bad stuff to other people ... to make a true effort to find out how "Room 101" needs to be prepared for someone you dearly hate ... an example of the danger of individual FEAR.Room 101 is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia ... another example of the danger of collective FEAR.