Sundance 2009: "The Killing Room."
Like "Saw," but sort of topical, Jonathan Liebesman's midnight movie "The Killing Room" is about a room in which people are killed -- killed by the government! Or perhaps just one of those government-associated top secret groups that are always capable of levels of devious competence far beyond the capabilities yet demonstrated by any actual existing bureaucracy, I'm a little iffy on it all. Four people who think they're signing up for medical testing find themselves instead part of a deadly experiment to find...what? We're forced to guess as it all goes down alongside Chloë Sevigny, who plays a gifted psychologist with an icy disposition and some hot heels brought in to observe and to audition for a job under program head Dr. Phillips (Peter Stormare). Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton and Clea DuVall are among the unfortunate subjects, and the quality that's being searched for by the sadistic process to...
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