After watching Sevigny in the HBO series “Big Love” I was familiar with this actress, but didn’t much like her. The true star of the show, though, is Chloë Sevigny as Ms. The film does what any good indie thriller should do - it takes an interesting set of interesting subjects, and puts them in a mysterious and terrifying situation which forces them to show their true character. The second half drags more than it should, and probably more so because the opening starts off with such an intense bang. Horror director Jonathan Liebesman shows that he’s better suited to make thrillers. What is the government program hoping to accomplish? You will find out, and it’s actually a pretty descent twist from what you might believe going in. And obviously it gets a lot deeper than that. This isn’t a spoiler because it’s explained as the film opens. The four individuals are part of a brutal test which is set up in a super classified government program that was relaunched after 9/11. The Killing Room is part Saw (without the torture porn), part Cube (minus the sci-fi), but with a more psychological edge. Reilly (Chloe Sevigny) begins questioning the ethics of such a diabolical experiment. Phillips (Peter Stormare) attempts to manipulate the study to get the answers he wants, the newest member of his team, military psychologist Ms. At first, the participants all assume that the subject who gives the most obviously incorrect answer will be removed from the experiment, though it doesn’t take long for the group to realize that the correct answer isn’t always the answer that the researchers are looking for. As the study gets underway, the group is presented with a series of questions, and given a finite window of time in which each individual member must submit a unique numerical answer. The allure of a little extra cash proving too powerful to resist, four strangers decide to partake in a paid research study. STARRING: Chloë Sevigny, Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Clea DuVall, Shea Whigham, Peter Stormareįour 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, in this tense psychological thriller from director Jonathan Liebesman ( Darkness Falls, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning). Hello everybody! For this weeks movie club, we have the psychological thriller The Killing Room.
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