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The Belko Experiment

In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system... Read all In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed. In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

• Greg McLean
• John Gallagher Jr.
• Tony Goldwyn
• Adria Arjona
• 283 User reviews
• 209 Critic reviews
• 44 Metascore

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• Barry Norris

• Leandra Florez

• Wendell Dukes

• Dany Wilkins

• Terry Winter

• Marty Espenscheid

• Vince Agostino

• Keith Mclure

• Lonny Crane

• Roberto Jerez

• Peggy Displasia

• Leota Hynek

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• Trivia John Gallagher, Jr. auditioned for a role in a previous film directed by James Gunn , but wasn't right for the part. However, Gunn thought he was the best actor he'd seen in an audition, and vowed to work with Gallagher again.
• Goofs The building supposedly became a giant defacto Faraday cage, but they are able to pick up a local radio station from inside the building. But nothing supports that the metal around the building is also acting as a Faraday cage. In many outside shots the of building you can see a tower on the roof with 3 Sector antennas positioned around it, this is likely a cell tower and due to the remote location likely the only one providing service to the area. With the level of expertise shown by the perpetrators it would be simple to disable this tower during the lockdown. It is also easily more probable a cell jammer or jammers could have been activated in or near the building.

The Voice : In two hours we want thirty of you dead. If thirty of you are not dead, we will end sixty of your lives ourselves. Five, four, three, two, one. Begin.

• Connections Featured in FoundFlix: The Belko Experiment (2017) Ending Explained (2017)
• Soundtracks Yo Vivire (I Will Survive) Written by Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren (as Frederick Perren) Translation by Oscar Gomez Performed by Jose Prieto

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The Belko Experiment offers a few moments of lurid fun for genre enthusiasts, but lacks enough subversive smarts to consistently engage once the carnage kicks in.

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The 20 Best Movies About Human Experiments

A relatively common trope in horror films and psychological thrillers, the concept of human experiments is truly horrific due to the realities of their existence. From World War II Nazi experiments to the birth of psychology field testing, the implantation of testing humans has resulted in a lot of suffering, but also a lot of knowledge about human behavior.

Therefore, the of human experimentation often results in two sides – that the overall good of knowledge counterbalances anything bad that can come out of the experiment, which is the mentality commonly seen in the experimenter, and the counterargument that nothing good can come out of anything bad is generally led by the subjects or victims.

From 1930’s Frankenstein to 1960’s French science fiction to today’s exploitation of horror films as seen in the “Saw” and “Human Centipede” franchises, the theme has had a long tradition.

20. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)

Don Edmonds’ endeavour into the nazisploitation genre follows Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne), a Kommandant of a Nazi prison camp. She conducts sadistic scientific experiments to fellow women in order to prove to the higher ranked officers that women are more capable of enduring pain than men are, and therefore should be allowed to fight in the German armed forces, since the Nazi military are in dire need of reinforcements.

Besides torturing women, every night she chooses male prisoners and rapes them and after she finishes with them, she castrates and kills them.

Even though the film is not for the light-hearted and extremely exploitative (hence nazisploitation), the sex-addicted sadist Ilsa is patterned after real-life murderous female Nazi camp personnel Ilse Koch and Irma Grese.

Before the film begins, there is a notice saying: “The film you are about to see is based on documented fact. The atrocities shown were conducted as ‘medical experiments’ in special concentration camps throughout Hitler’s Third Reich.

Although these crimes against humanity are historically accurate, the characters depicted are composites of notorious Nazi personalities; and the events portrayed, have been condensed into one locality for dramatic purposes. Because of its shocking subject matter, this film is restricted to adult audiences only. We dedicate this film with the hope that these heinous crimes will never happen again.”

The film was followed by three sexploitation sequels, Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) and Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977).

19. Re-Animator (1985)

Stuart Gordon’s science fiction horror comedy loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft episodic novella “Herbert West–Reanimator” follows Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), a medical student, as he successfully brings his dead professor back to life, but finds that there are horrible side-effects which end up re-killing Gruber.

West moves away to continue his experiments with the help of fellow medical student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), as they try convince the University’s Dean, Dr. Alan Halsey (Robert Sampson), about the possibilities of reanimation of the dead.

Originally, Gordon was going to adapt Lovecraft’s story for the stage, and then planned to make a half-hour television pilot, and then reformatted the pilot and the twelve episodes which were planned to follow to be maximized to an hour.

Eventually they decided on making a standard film since the majority of the horror fan bases were found to watch films more than television. Gordon and his writers, Dennis Paoli and William Norris, also intended it to be a period piece at the beginning of the 20th Century, but found it to be too over-budget and hence landed on adapting it to modern-day Chicago.

The fast pace, deadpan humour and bloody special-effects led to the integration of B-grade thrillers, surrealist art and 80s comedy and to an overall cult classic.

18. The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Franklin J. Schaffner’s British-American science fiction thriller based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin follows young Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) and retired Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) as they track down a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals, including the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, who are, themselves, tracking down 94 seemingly random men in different countries, including Austria, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, the United States, and kill them.

Lieberman follows Kohler’s leads and begins travelling to investigate the suspicious deaths of these men. He meets their widows and is astonished to find an eerie resemblance in their adopted, black-haired, blue-eyed sons, who all have similar mannerisms despite being from different places and speaking various languages.

Lieberman also discovers strange similarities with regards to the assassinated men’s cold attitudes towards the boy, the mother’s affectionate bond, and the ages of the parents during the time of adoption. The reason behind the uncanny resemblance is astoundingly chilling as Schaffner utilises iconic actors to tell an original tale that reimagines history and questions the “what if” attitudes of World War II.

The film gained three Academy Award nominations in the following categories – Best Actor (Laurence Olivier), Film Editing (Robert Swink) and for Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith). Gregory Peck was also recognised at the Golden Globes, earning a nomination for Best Actor is a Drama.

17. The Sylvian Experiments (2010)

Hiroshi Takahashi’s Japanese horror follows two sisters, Miyuki and Kaori, who are daughters of two neurosurgeons, Etsuko Ōta and Yukio. They all see a documentary of a secret experiment where the Japanese, Manchu, and Russian subjects’ temporal lobes are electrified until the subjects are strangely able to project a blinding white light.

Years later, Etsuko plans on conducting a similar experiment and recruits her daughter, Miyuki, as well as others to commit mass suicide assisted by Etsuko’s assistant, Hattori, as part of their initiation into the experiment. Miyuki wakes up inside a facility and is told that she has died and is currently astral projecting.

After having lost contact with her sister for six months, Kaori tracks down her last movements as she sees and talks to her in her dreams. Soon, her mother takes Kaori to the facility to learn about the experiment.

Etsuko reveals that she and Kaori have always wanted to become enlightened by the true reality beyond the current one in order to achieve a spiritual evolution. Takahashi, known as a screenwriter of “Ring”, once again utilises the source of thought through video since the documentary they initially saw sparked off their quest for enlightenment through experimentation.

16. Exam (2009)

Stuart Hazeldine’s psychological thriller, set in a parallel version of present-time United Kingdom, follow eight candidates as they sit for an employment assessment exam for the company, DATAPREV.

The Invigilator explains that the exam is 80 minutes and consists of only one question, but there are three rules that if broken, lead to disqualification. They must not talk to him or the armed guard at the door, they must not “spoil” their paper, and they must not leave the room. Each desk contains a question paper with the word “candidate”, followed by a number, from one to eight.

Set in real time, the exam begins and it is revealed that the papers are blank. One candidate is immediately disqualified, leaving the remaining seven – nicknamed Black, White, Brown, Dark, Blonde, Brunette, and Deaf – referring to their skin and hair colours, to realize that they can talk to each other and work together.

“White”, who is arrogant and rude, takes control of the group as they try to figure out how to reveal any hidden questions on the paper. The group manipulates tricks and uses each other in hopes of their disqualification. The scenario soon becomes dangerous, but they cannot talk to the armed guard or the invigilator for help.

Nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, Hazeldine’s film makes incredible use of a single location, a few actors, and a tense countdown clock to the end of the exam, and subsequently, the end of the film. With multiple twists and turns, one wonders what job could be so important for such a chillingly claustrophobic interview, and Hazeldine does not disappoint.

15. Dead Ringers (1998)

David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel “Twins”, follow Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons) who are identical twins and gynecologists who specialise in female fertility treatment.

The more confident and cynical of the two, Elliot, seduces women patients and when he eventually gets bored of them, passes them off to the shy and passive Beverly, without the women even realising that they have switched.

However, soon Beverly gets a girl by himself, Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold), who realises the difference between the two brothers.

The two become close, but she soon leaves town for work, sending Beverly into a depressive episode and leading him to abuse prescription drugs, become slave to paranoid delusions and see “mutant women” with abnormal genitalia. He must “fix” these women and commissions metallurgical artist Anders Wolleck to create a set of strange gynecological instruments specifically for operating on these fictional, mutant women.

Cronenberg, who is a master of body horror, is no stranger to graphic imagery and psychological dishevelling. Another film of his which could fall under this list is “The Fly” (1986), which follows Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), an eccentric scientist who has just successfully managed to create a teleportation device, and is anxious to use it himself.

This James Gunn/Peter Safran Horror Movie Is 'Battle Royale' Meets 'The Office'

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The Big Picture

• The Belko Experiment innovatively combines the battle royale trope with the mundane setting of an office block.
• The movie explores workplace hierarchy and human nature through intense action and ethical dilemmas.
• The film doesn't hold back on gore, delivering brutal kills that are unexpected yet meaningful in the battle for survival.

Within the battle royale subgenre (named after the 2000 seminal movie), which sees individuals pitted against each other in a fight to the death, The Belko Experiment is one of the standouts. A collaboration from now DC Studios co-CEOs , The Belko Experiment was written by James Gunn , known for his work on the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, and produced by Peter Safran , known to horror fans for his work on the Conjuring franchise . In the director's chair for the 2016 horror film was Wolf Creek helmer Greg McLean . Taking place in a single office block, the movie sees 80 employees at Belko Industries locked inside their workplace and told they must kill their fellow employees or risk being killed themselves. John Gallagher Jr . leads the cast as Mike Milch, an unremarkable worker at Belko Industries who steps up in the face of threat. The Belko Experiment has a huge number of characters and, consequently, has a huge death count . Yet, the movie ensures important individuals are introduced, meaning their deaths carry weight. It finds the perfect balance between action and emotion and combines the single-location trope , with the death game trope, making it an intensely compelling horror flick.

The Belko Experiment

'the belko experiment' takes death games to a new environment.

Death games are a popular trope within movies and TV , particularly with the success of Squid Game and the recent resurgence of The Hunger Games following the adaptation of the prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . Even within horror, the trope seems to be constantly appearing, from well-known franchises like Saw to stand-alone features such as Ready or Not , Would You Rather , and Truth or Dare . The Belko Experiment takes the trope to an environment that is familiar and rather mundane to viewers; your run-of-the-mill office block. The beginning of the movie frames itself as a normal workday as the employees at the Belko office in Bogotá, Columbia are preparing themselves for their day of work. However, there are slight unnerving undertones as armed guards turn away any locals who work for the company and leave only the American employees.

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Slowly, we are introduced to the number of employees that work in the office. Considering the huge number of characters , The Belko Experiment successfully highlights the key players who are individualized and represent the vast range of people who work in the building. From the employees smiling at each other before rolling their eyes when they pass, to new girl Dani ( Melonie Diaz ) getting her introduction to the company, to Marty, a cafeteria worker played by writer James Gunn's younger brother Sean Gunn having a smoke in the toilet and trying to encourage the fumes to go through the air vent. The subtle nuances of everyday life are detailed and realistic. It allows the characters to feel human but still gives them distinctive personalities. Without this pre-established characterization, the eventual battle royale scenario wouldn't feel so tense.

'The Belko Experiment' Explores Workplace Hierarchy

At first, when it is revealed that the employees at Belko must kill two of their fellow employees, they don't believe it is real. The group doesn't panic and logically attempts to resolve the situation. Then two people are killed when their heads explode. The tone of the movie immediately shifts from a casual, ordinary workday to utter chaos. The stakes of the situation are clear, and the characters react in different ways that reflect the internal structure of the company. The weapons are claimed by those in high-powered positions, such as CEO Barry Norris ( Tony Goldwyn ), and those lower in the company are left to fend for themselves.

This execution of power culminates in one of the most effective scenes of the entire movie. Played to the soundtrack of "California Dreamin'" in Spanish, Norris picks out the elderly employees as well as those without children and forces them to kneel in a line. They are mercilessly shot one by one, asserting the power of Norris' group. Scenes like this allow The Belko Experiment to explore the themes of human nature and the value of one life over the other. The characters question the morality of killing, and whether certain people deserve saving over others. One employee, Terry ( Owain Yeoman ), even pulls Norris aside and suggests a lottery would be fairer. It heightens the existential nature that comes from the battle royale subgenre and forces the viewer to question their own ethics. Even when the characters are in action-heavy, dangerous situations, The Belko Experiment always places ethics and morality at the center. It is not just a movie with a high death count, the kills have meaning and motivation.

'The Belko Experiment' Doesn't Hold Back On Gore

The social aspect of The Belko Experiment is only half of its appeal. It is still a battle royale movie and the expectation is lots of kills, and it more than delivers on that aspect. The first kill of the movie might be accidental, but it sets the tone for the brutality to follow. Lonny ( David Dastmalchian ) hits his fellow maintenance worker Bud ( Michael Rooker ) with a wrench, causing a gaping hole in his skull. The first handful of deaths are slow, but after a certain character's slaughter, The Belko Experiment turns bloody and relentless. The reveal that the sole survivor will be the individual with the highest kill count just causes more carnage. There are a large number of gun-inflicted deaths, but The Belko Experiment utilizes the office environment to offer some innovative kills including an elevator, a cleaver, and a fire axe.

The deaths are unexpected but never feel gimmicky. Through this, the balance of action and characterization makes The Belko Experiment a fresh interpretation of the battle royale subgenre. Pitting co-workers against each other adds an innovative dynamic. They are characters who develop such intense relationships through seeing each other every day but are quick to turn on each other to protect external relationships that mean more, such as their families. It is a new take on the classmates seen in the original Battle Royale , and the dynamic is very similar. The Belko Experiment encapsulates the culture of an office block and the brutality of the death game trope. It is energetic and gory but also tender and grounded, making it a must-watch for fans of the subgenre.

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'The Belko Experiment' Trailer (2016)

Dec 20, 2018 - The American Belko Company in South America is mysteriously sealed off at the start of work, leaving 79 people trapped in an office building, forced to kill each other or be killed.

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You don’t need to squint very hard to see the satirical elements that might have elevated blood-soaked horror flick “The Belko Experiment” to greatness. The premise—a group of employees are forced to kill each other at the whims of an anonymous employer—is promising. But the script, penned by James Gunn (“ Guardians of the Galaxy ,” “Slither”), is undercooked, its violence foregrounded to the point of distraction. Many people will either love or hate this film based on how gory and aggressively cynical it is. But realistically, Gunn’s biggest conceptual failure is that his scenario is thoughtlessly cruel. The characters could have embodied traits of typical office drones and managers, turning the film into a savage black comedy. But those elements aren’t developed beyond a point, making the movie’s only selling point its excessive gore and violence.

You’ll notice, from the start, how easy it is to either identify with or dismiss characters in “The Belko Experiment” based on how they respond to the stress of being told to kill their fellow employees. Never mind that stress makes people do crazy things: we’re supposed to sympathize with by-the-book employee Mike (John Gallagher Jr.) because he’s a moderate voice of reason compared to self-appointed megalomaniac Barry ( Tony Goldwyn ). Mike is the kind of guy who encourages his fellow employees to take the stairs, not the elevators while Barry is the kind of guy who says that the group should “consider our options” and think about cooperating with the mysterious uber-boss who’s compelling them to kill each other. Both characters clash sooner rather than later because each employee has a GPS micro-chip implanted in their heads—they are working in Bogota, where kidnappings are supposedly not uncommon—which is ultimately used as an explosive to pick off disobedient employees. 

Secondary characters either voice their disapproval or support of Barry and Mike’s respective positions: Mike insists that nobody has “the right to choose who lives and who dies” while Barry suggests that they have no choice. You may, at some point, wonder if Barry has a point. But that moment will pass when you see the other guys he’s allied himself with, people like jittery, trigger-happy Lonny ( David Dastmalchian ) and sexual-harassment-happy Wendell ( John C. McGinley ). There’s no way to take the utilitarian position in this film because these guys are defined exclusively by personality-revealing bad behavior. 

Conversely, there’s no way to relate to Mike because he’s such a generic goody-goody. What kind of guy warns people to take the stairs and not the elevators during such an emergency? That’s a half-serious question: I do not know anything about Mike beyond the fact that he handles stress well, talks other employees down from stress, and is a rational thinker given how much of the film’s early expository speculation comes from him (he’s a bit chatty at the start, but necessarily so since he’s essentially the lone voice of reason). There’s no way to tell what he was like before the Belko bosses starting killing their employees off, nor any way to know why we should sympathize with the character beyond the fact that he’s part of the solution and not the problem.

Then again, the lack of motivation could have also been a source of great comedy. Belko could be an office like any other: a place where bosses and fellow employees act kind and genial one minute but have the potential to transform into domineering thugs as soon as they fear they’re going to be thrown under the bus. That’s who Lonny, the most sympathetic of Gunn’s baddies, seems to be. But he’s annoyingly knock-kneed, and ineffectual, making him instantly unlikable. McGinley’s character is defined by his insincere toothy grin, and proud tendency of showing off his muscles, making his narcissism all too apparent. And Barry just wants to stay in control, as he shows when he undermines nice guy security guard Evan ( James Earl ) by breaking into the company’s weapons cache(!).

This makes a bloody, unpleasant series of murders the only reason to see “The Belko Experiment.” Director Greg McLean (“ Wolf Creek ,” “Rogue”) fails to distinguish himself during medium close-up shots of heads exploding and torsos flailing. But McLean’s contributions to “The Belko Experiment” aren’t what makes the film so disappointing. Gunn’s unimaginative conception of a “Battle Royale” meets “ Office Space ” style horror film—I just bet that that was the elevator pitch—holds a decent cast back from dying meaningful deaths. Even the most diehard gorehounds and Gunn supporters should give this stinker a pass. 

Simon Abrams

Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in  The New York Times ,  Vanity Fair ,  The Village Voice,  and elsewhere.

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• Adria Arjona as Leandra Flores
• David Dastmalchian as Alonso 'Lonny' Crane
• John Gallagher Jr. as Mike Milch
• David Del Rio as Roberto Jerez
• Melonie Diaz as Dany Wilkins
• Josh Brener as Keith McLure
• Sean Gunn as Marty Espenscheid
• Michael Rooker as Bud Melks
• John C. McGinley as Wendell Dukes
• Mikaela Hoover as Raziya Memarian
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