The Belko Experiment (2016)

Release date: 2017-03-17
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Greg McLean
Production Co: Orion Pictures, Troll Court Entertainment, The Safran Company
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 6.1/10
Length: 1h 29min

Storyline

Mike Milch, an employee of Belko Industries, while driving to work is stopped by street vendors selling "lucky" handmade dolls. Barry Norris, also of Belko Industries, arrives at the remote office building in rural Bogotá, Colombia, to find unfamiliar security guards turning away the local Colombian staff at the gate. New employee Dany Wilkins reports for her first day on the job and is told that a tracking device is implanted in the base of every Belko employee's skull in case they are kidnapped. This is explained as being common in Colombia due to the high incidences of kidnapping.

Plot Keywords

death, head blown off, cruelty, mass murder, gore, megalomaniac, loudspeaker, brutality, game of death, office building, office worker, security guard, security camera, blood, blood splatter, hit with a wrench, elevator, elevator shaft, fight to the death, co worker co worker relationship

Short Review

Going about its grisly business with undisguised relish, the film comes closer to the chilly spirit of science fiction writer J.G. Ballard than director Ben Wheatley did in his recent, overwrought adaptation of Ballard's novel High-Rise.