A high-concept horror film that blends elements of Battle Royale and Office Space into a deliciously nihilistic experience, Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment is a lean-and-mean piece of cinema, which features a strong understanding of tension and escalation, while being gleeful in its depiction of eroding morality. The film is centered around a twisted social experiment, which finds 80 American office workers unexpectedly caged in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, with absolutely no way escape. Instructed over the office intercoms by a mysterious authority, the office workers are told that they must participate in a game of survival, in which they must kill or be killed, with only the strongest individuals perhaps being allowed to survive. Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment is a film which sees friends pitted against friends, coworkers against coworkers, yet its tone is surprisingly light for a film of such high stakes, as writer James Gunn, injects the entire film with a gleeful depravity, pulling off a relatively impressive balancing act which sees the film maintain its tension and stakes while never feeling overly grating, thanks to Gunn's injection of absurdist humor into the mix. The film itself should be enjoyed by horror and action fans alike, with The Belko Experiment delivering a constant and suffocating sense of escalation, with the fading sense of morality among the workers being palpable within the story. The Belko Experiment isn't exactly an optimistic film in the end when it comes to humanity, embracing the inherent selfishness of man, being an honest film about the self-preservationist aspect of humanity, one that finds nearly all individuals' regress to their most primal state when life and death are on the line. Mean, violent, and gleefully depraved, Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment is an intense and engaging action/horror hybrid that is sure to be enjoyed by fans of horror and action cinema alike.
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