The Killing Room isn't an original idea, it's one of those phase Horror/Thriller themes replicated in many other films. To give it credit, the acting isn't too bad, but it.
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The Killing Room () - Rotten Tomatoes
A group of four people sign up for a psychological research experiment. After they meet in a large, white room, they are then told that they will have to kill each other, as only one person will be let out alive.
One man is able to smash through the ventilation duct in the ceiling. The researchers react calmly as this has all happened before in fact, the protagonists had heard someone scrambling through the duct earlier.
He reaches a roof duct, but is blocked by a steel grill. Two labcoated researchers with clipboards are shown standing over another rooftop duct from which can be heard a woman screaming.
‘The Experiment’ Vs. ‘The Killing Room’
They walk over to the other grill, hit the man with knockout gas and drag him back to the Room. In the end it's down to two people, one of whom seems more likely to survive. The other has a gun with one bullet, so he decides to kill himself in a Heroic Sacrifice. As he quickly shoves the gun in his mouth there's a gunshot, and bloodsplatter, then several other gunshots — the researchers have burst into the room and shoot his companion, as the test is meant to recruit people capable of sacrificing themselves in Suicide Attacks.
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Black Dude Dies First: The subjects are told they'll be eliminated one at a time in a psychological experiment. The sole female member is then immediately shot to set the stakes.
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The only black subject appears to have the least will to survive, and when they're down to two members decides to kill himself in a Heroic Suicide. Mooks then burst into the room and kill the other subject, as that's what they're testing for the experiment is meant to brainwash people into becoming suicide bombers. As the movie ends with him being scheduled for "Phase 2" of the experiment, it would have been more merciful if the trope had been played straight.
In the end the subjects decide to rush the door next time it is opened, and one of them covers himself with blood from a dead subject to make his body slippery so he can't be grabbed. Four subjects are locked in a room for a psychological experiment. They're then told only one can get out alive. The film also covers the man running the experiment and a new recruit for the program. They never leave the premises, and it's implied that if the new recruit does try to walk out before the experiment runs its course, she'll be killed.
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Couldn't Find a Pen: One of the subjects finds what appears to be a message from the previous occupants scratched into the wall. The words have been painted over, so they take the blood from a member of their group who has already been killed and smear it on the walls to make out the words. But Liebesman and screenwriters Gus Krieger and Ann Peacock really manage to pull an affecting and intriguing movie out of this tired premise, partly by leaving the purpose of the test ambiguous up until the final reel, but mainly because unlike most of these movies, you get to spend at least a third of the movie alongside the people running the show.
There are problems, however. But the final few seconds do resonate as the credits pull up.
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Next up; The Experiment. They were to remain in this state for 14 days whilst they were studied by unseen scientists and psychologists.
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Human nature took over, of course, and after 6 days of quickly escalating torture the experiment was aborted. The BBC tried to recreate the experiment a few years back with similar results. Written and Directed by Paul Scheuring, this straight-to-dvd US remake is about as basic an interpretation of this psychologically fascinating premise as you could possibly get.
Cam Gigandet Twilight, Easy A hams it up wonderfully and Maggie Grace even pops in for a couple of cameos as possibly the most insipidly forgettable love interest in recent memory. Complete with a slow pan down his thankfully clothed body as he revels in its horrifying magnificence.