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The Belko Experiment

The Belko Experiment  is a 2016 American action horror-thriller film directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn. The film stars John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley and Melonie Diaz. Filming began on June 1, 2015, in Bogotá, Colombia. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016 and was released in the United States on March 17, 2017, by Blumhouse Tilt and Orion Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and had a box office of $11.1 million worldwide & had a $5 million budget.

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Synopsis [ ]

Mike Milch is arriving at work several employees are sent home by new guards leaving 80 people including Mike, Barry Norris , Mike's girlfriend Leandra Florez , and new recruit Danielle Wilkins . A voice comes over the intercom and instructs the employees to kill 2 people. However nobody believes it, Marty Espenscheid thinks it's a psychological test and Barry thinks it's a prank until one of Marty's friends head explodes followed by 3 other people .

The voice comes back instructing them they have 2 hours to kill 30 people or 60 of them will die. Mike, Leandra and Keith try to flag the guards but the guards fire at them with assault rifles. Bud Melks and Lonny Crane try to break the metal on the doors and windows but fail so they go into the basement with Dany. Lonny attacks them with a wrench, he kills Bud but Dany kicks him into a pipe which results in him getting impaled. Barry, Wendell , Antonio , Terry , and Bradley attempt to open the weapon safe. Mike Leandra and Evan try to stop them but Wendell stabs Evan and steals the keys, Mike is knocked out as well. Barry and his crew begin their killing spree. Jonathan & 1 0 o t h e r s are executed . Mike is about to be executed however Dany turns off the lights of the facility, which results in all of the surviving employees excluding Barry and his group, fleeing. Now desperate to get a total of 30 kills, Barry and his group open fire on the fleeing employees. Soon afterwards, Barry’s group attempts to chase down the other employees which results in them splitting up. Antonio chases Peggy into a stairwell in order to kill her. However just as he was to kill her, Mike jumps on him distracting him long enough for Peggy to take Antonio‘s knife and kill Antonio. Bradley tries to restore the power to the facility but Vince tackles him to ground, he and several other employees, murder Bradley. At that point, 29 employees are killed in phase 2. The Voice contacts again to explain they only have 2 minutes to kill one more person or 31 additional employees will die. As Barry, Wendell and Terry are searching for more employees to kill, Leandra surprises Terry with a paper trimmer attempting to kill him but she hesitates to do so. The Voice then contacts the remaining employees & explains that the 2 minutes is up and 31 employees will be killed. Terry, Keith, Peggy and several others employees are then killed which leaves only 16 employees left in the building.

The Voice comes over the intercom & says it time for "Phase 3", Whoever kills the most people in one hour will be allowed to leave alive. Barry then tries to kill Roberto who is on top of a now moving elevator, when he tries to jump off he gets crushed against the elevator, roof, and wall as Dany has to watch. Meanwhile Barry gets trapped in the elevator in the process. Wendell then finds and kills 2 employees in the bathroom. Leandra then finds Chet and Marty & they proceed to collect the bombs of the dead employees. Leandra, Chet and Marty then meet up with Mike. They stumble across Wendell pulling Tyson out of a freezer and dismembering him up. Leandra then shoots Wendell but not killing him, She then hides with Chet and Marty behind a table. Wendell then shoots and kills Chet & Marty but is killed by Leandra. Vince finally accepts that he has to kill, so he grabs Bradley’s pistol and kills Raziya and another man who witnessed the murder trying to run away . Mike and Liezle find Leandra but are attacked by Vince who kills Lezlie. As Vince is hunting Mike and Leandra, he gets killed by Barry. As Mike and Leandra are running away from Barry, Leandra gets shot & begins to bleed out. Barry then shoots Vince straight in the heart and Vince dies and then finds and kills Dany who was in another elevator. Leandra soon dies from blood loss. Mike angrily kills Barry with a tape dispenser which makes Mike is the last survivor and is eventually carried away by two "security" guards, carefully attaching the bombs gathered earlier to the guards in the process. He is taken outside & brought into a nearby hangar.

Inside the hangar, The Voice has been watching, communicating & operating the experiment within. As the Voice is attempting to question Mike, Mike notices a switchboard with every employees name on it that allowed detonation of the the bombs that were implanted. Mike suddenly runs to the switchboard & flips every switch except the switch with his name on it. All of the bombs explode, killing the security guards & wounding the Voice in the process. Mike then picks up one of the guard‘s assault rifles and kills the two other employees working with the Voice. As the Voice pleads, Mike shoots the Voice. Mike then exits the hangar. The camera panes out revealing Mike to be one of many sole survivors of other Belko experiments across South America. Another voice is heard saying commence stage 2.

• John Gallagher Jr. as Mike Milch , a Mid-level officer worker employee at Belko Industries
• Gregg Henry as The Voice , The leader and director of the experiment
• Tony Goldwyn as Barry Norris , the Chief Operating Officer of Belko and an ex-Special Forces soldier
• Adria Arjona as Leandra Florez , Norris' Foul-mouthed assistant and Mike's love interest
• Melonie Diaz as Dany Wilkins , New kid on the block hired at Belko. First day on the job.
• Brent Sexton as Vince Agostino , Belko's head of human resources
• Alietta Montero as Liezle Freemont , an elderly cafeteria worker.
• John C. McGinley as Wendell Dukes , a socially awkward High-level top executive; deemed a "pervert".
• Sean Gunn as Marty Espenscheid , A cafeteria worker, hippie, and stoner.
• Abraham Benrubi as Chet Valincourt , Marty Espenscheid's best friend.
• Joe Fria as Tyson Moon , Wendell's friend.
• David Del Rio as Roberto Jerez , a Latino office worker who befriends Dany and Leota.
• Maruia Shelton as Agnes Meraz , a co-worker of Luigi.
• Cindy Better as Lorena Checo , a worker who pretends to be friendly to Norris.
• Mikaela Hoover as Raziya Memarian , Agostino's assistant who greets Dany on her first day.
• Juan Ortega as Luigi Moretti , a co-worker of Agnes.
• Josh Brener as Keith Mclure , a nerdy tech worker
• Rusty Schwimmer as Peggy Displasia , Mike Milch's administrative assistant secretary.
• Gail Bean as Leota Hynek , a Friendly office worker who befriends Dany and Roberto.
• David Cantor as Griffin Myers , a cafeteria worker.
• Charles Daze as Tim Gallaher , a worker.
• Ximena Rodriguez as A. Huberman , a pretty cafeteria worker.
• Maia Landaburu as Louisa "Raven" Luna , Head of the cleaning crew and other custodians.
• Guillermo Galindo as Carlos Yanez , an elderly worker.
• Owain Yeoman as Terry Winters , Mike's English Fop co-worker and friend and pushover when it comes to Norris.
• Andres Suárez as Bradley Lang , Dany's co-worker whom secretly has a crush on Dany
• Benjamin Byron Davis as Antonio Fowler , a Large office worker loyal to Norris.
• Stephen Blackehart as Robert Hickland , a hotheaded, short-tempered interpreter
• Valentine Miele as Ross Reynolds , a sleazy sales representative for Belko
• Kristina Lilley as Sarah Mariana , a worker and is the last person to arrive before the experiment begins.
• Lorena Tobar as J. Ferguson , an elderly cafeteria worker.
• Silvia de Dios as Helena Barton , the supervisor of Roberto, Leota, Bradley and Dany
• Santiago Bejarano as Luis Costa , an friendly elderly worker.
• Luna Baxter as Samantha Arcos , a co-worker of Mike with a hatred for Norris.
• Silvia Varón as Frances Anne , the only wheelchair-using employee of Belko.
• Álvaro García as Jonathan Schwartz , an elderly worker.
• James Earl as Evan Smith , Belko's only official security guard at the Front desk
• David Dastmalchian as Lonny Crane , a maintenance worker under Melks who loses his nerve.
• Michael Rooker as Bud Melks , Belko's head of the Maintenance department
• Yeison Alvarez as Lawrence Fitzgibbon , Evan's best friend.
• Maria Juliana Caicedo as Lucy Martinez , a friend of Chet and Marty
• Manuel Torres as Christopher Francis , a quiet office worker
• Juan Manuel Lenis as Sebastian Bruno , an office worker
• Juan Carlos Villegas as a subtle interpreter.
• Monica Giraldo as Victoria Baro , a worker.
• Alfonso Olave as a young executive.
• Javier Riveros as a middle-aged executive.
• Melissa Bermúdez as a young executive.
• Andrés Felipe Rojas as a young office worker.
• Federico Nieto-El' Gazi as an office worker.
• Gamal Dillard as a bald executive
• Fran Fiol as another office worker.
• Diana Wiswell as a cafeteria worker.
• Camilo Zuleta as a middle aged executive.
• Julio Nava as one of the guards .
• Ricardo Hoyos as another one of the guards .
• Mark Behar as the only surviving guard .
• Anton Tarazov as a questinaire .
• Isnardo Saenz as a camera man .
• Ben Boodman as a survivor of another experiment.
• Ryan Kirtack as another survivor of another experiment.
• Cody Mobley as another survivor of another experiment.
• Carlos Enrique Gómez as toothless merchant .
• Orion Pictures is a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Formerly an independent entity, it was Revived as a film production studio in 2013
• James Gunn conceived the plot of this film from a dream he had.
• Production on The Belko Experiment began on July 12th, 2015. Exterior shots of the movie were filmed on-location in Bogotá, Colombia
• Although the man behind "The Voice" is finally revealed at the end of the film, it is made clear that he is but a minor cog in the machine. As the architects and builders behind this and all of the other experiments all remain unknown
• This is John Gallagher Jr. 's second thriller film released in 2016. The other one being 10 Cloverfield Lane .
• Actor John C. McGinley also played in Office Space . Which coincidentally movies both take place in a office and have a 89 minute run time
• Actor James Earl meets again with John C. McGinely as they were both cast members on Ground Floor
• James Gunn has a great affection for actor Michael Rooker . Known for playing Yondu Udonta in Gunn's superhero movies Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 [1]

Behind the Scenes [ ]

• James Gunn announced the film on his Facebook page on March 31, 2015. He began posting cast announcements daily on May 18, 2015.
• Filming began in early June, 2015 in Bogota, Colombia.