The Experiment (2010)
They never imagined it would go this far
Director: Paul T. Scheuring · Writers: Paul T. Scheuring, Mario Giordano
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Director
Paul T. Scheuring
Cast
Adrien Brody
Travis 
Cam Gigandet
Chase 
Forest Whitaker
Barris 
Maggie Grace
Kelly 
Clifton Collins Jr.
Nix 
Fisher Stevens
Archaleta 
Damien Leake
Govenor 
Ethan Cohn
Benji 
Travis Fimmel
Helweg 
David Banner
Bosch 
Rod Maiorano
Rex 
Rachel O'Meara
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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 grand each. There are rules though, and if any of them are broken a red light will come on signalling the end of the experiment, and no one will be pa…
