The Experiment

  • Thriller
  • Drama
7/15/2010
96
R

They never imagined it would go this far

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Budget:
$21,800,000

Videos

Cast

Reviews

  • LastCaress1972

    Decent enough if unremarkable English-language take on Oliver Hirschbiegels superior Das Experiment, which itself was adapted from a novel (Black Box) which was inspired by a real experiment carried out at Stanford University in 1971. It was funded by the US Navy, and it was abandoned after only six days, when it went tits-up.

    The story: a bunch of people are interviewed, and 24 are selected to participate in a social experiment: they are to be coached out to a camera-ed up detention centre, where eight will be selected to play the role of prison guards while the remaining sixteen will adopt the role of prisoners. The experiment is scheduled to last for fourteen days, at the end of which the participants will receive their pay: fourteen ...

    August 11, 2013

Recommendations

Similar Movies