The Belko Experiment Dvd

The Belko Experiment is a 2016 American horror thriller film directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, who also produced the film with Peter Safran. It stars John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Josh Brener and Michael Rooker. The film follows eighty Americans working abroad for a company named Belko Industries in Bogotá, Colombia. One day after they arrive at work, they are locked inside the building, and a mysterious voice announces that they have to start killing each other.

Filming began on June 1, 2015 in Bogotá, Colombia and concluded the following month. The film premiered at the 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 has grossed $11 million worldwide, against its $5 million budget.

Plot

Mike Milch (John Gallagher Jr.), an employee of Belko Industries, while driving to work is stopped by street vendors selling “lucky” handmade dolls. Barry Norris (Tony Goldwyn), also of Belko Industries, arrives at the office building in Bogotá, Colombia, to find unfamiliar security guards turning away the local Colombian staff at the gate. New employee Dany Wilkins (Melonie Diaz) 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 something happens to them.

Evan Smith (James Earl), Belko’s head security guard, does not know who the new security guards are. Once all the employees show up, a voice on the intercom instructs them to kill two of their co-workers, or else there will be consequences. Several staff attempt to flee the building, but steel shutters seal off the walls and doors, locking them all in. They ignore the announcement at first, believing it to be a sick prank, but after the set time ends and the two have not been killed, four employees die when explosives hidden in their trackers detonate and blow their heads apart. Mike attempts to remove his tracker with a box cutter. Warned by the voice that he too will die unless he stops, he gives up.

The group is told that unless thirty of them are dead within two hours, sixty will be killed. They split into two factions, one led by Mike, who believes that there should be no killing, and one led by chief operating officer boss Barry Norris who intends to follow the directions in order to save himself. Barry and his group, consisting of executive Wendell (John C. McGinley), as well as employees Terry (Owain Yeoman), Antonio (Benjamin Byron Davis), and Bradley (Andres Suarez) attempt to burn off the lock of the armory in order to gain access to its weapons. Mike and his group, including his girlfriend, Leandra Florez (Adria Arjona), Evan and employees Keith (Josh Brener), Leota (Gail Bean), Peggy (Rusty Schwimmer), Vince (Brent Sexton) and Roberto (David Del Rio), try to hang banners from the roof as a call for help, but soldiers outside shoot at them. Barry, Wendell, and Terry ambush the group in the stairway, kill Evan and take his keys to the armory.

With his group now armed, Barry and Wendell select thirty people, including Mike and Peggy, forcing them to kneel in a line. He begins executing them with a gunshot to the back of the head. Dany, who has been hiding in the basement, sees what is happening and shuts off the building’s lights before Mike and several others can be killed. The employees immediately run for cover as Barry and his group start firing, killing several more people. However, Bradley and Antonio are ganged upon and killed by the employees. During this, Dany goes into the elevator shaft with Roberto.

Barry and Wendell hunt down the fleeing employees as the voice informs them that only twenty-nine have been killed. Then the two-hour time limit runs out. The voice states that 31 more people will die, including Terry, Leota, Peggy, and Keith, leaving only 16 survivors. They are then informed by the voice that, as a final task, the employee who has killed the most people within an hour will be spared. Barry finds Dany and Roberto in the elevator shaft. Still, Dany escapes while Roberto is crushed and killed in the elevator shaft. Leandra finds two employees, Marty (Sean Gunn) and Chet (Abraham Benrubi), collecting the un-exploded trackers from the heads of people who have died by other methods. They tell her that they are planning to use them to blow up the wall. However, they are killed by Wendell. Leandra kills Wendell, leaving the final six survivors: Vince, Mike, Barry, Dany, Leandra, and cafeteria lady Leezle, who is killed shortly afterward. Barry shoots Vince and Dany, killing them, and also shoots Leandra. With her dying breath, she proclaims her love to Mike.

In a rage, Mike fights and then kills Barry by crushing his skull with a tape dispenser. The building is then unsealed, as he is the last survivor, and the soldiers escort him to the hangar next door. There, he meets the owner of the Voice (Gregg Henry), who says that they’re part of an international organisation studying human behaviour. As he and his colleagues begin to question Mike about his emotional and mental state, Mike notices a panel of switches that correspond to the eighty employees. Having planted the trackers that Marty collected on the soldiers and the Voice, he flips every remaining active switch except his own. The trackers explode, killing the soldiers and wounding the Voice, before Mike grabs a gun and kills the remaining scientists. The Voice attempts to reason with Mike and appeal to his moral beliefs, but Mike kills him. He then leaves the warehouse in a state of shock. The view zooms out to reveal that Mike is one of many sole survivors from similar experiments, being watched by another group through security cameras. A new voice states, “end stage one” and “commence stage two.”

Cast

John Gallagher Jr. as Mike Milch, an employee at Belko Industries
Tony Goldwyn as Barry Norris, the COO of Belko and an ex-special forces soldier
Adria Arjona as Leandra Florez, Norris’ assistant
John C. McGinley as Wendell Dukes, a socially awkward top executive
Melonie Diaz as Dany Wilkins, a new hire at Belko
Owain Yeoman as Terry Winters
Sean Gunn as Marty Espenscheid, a cafeteria worker
Brent Sexton as Vince Agostino, Belko’s head of human resources
Josh Brener as Keith McLure, a tech worker
David Dastmalchian as Alonso “Lonny” Crane, a maintenance worker under Melks
David Del Rio as Roberto Jerez
Gregg Henry as The Voice
Michael Rooker as Bud Melks, Belko’s head of Maintenance
Rusty Schwimmer as Peggy Displasia, Milch’s secretary
Gail Bean as Leota Hynek, a worker who befriends Wilkins
James Earl as Evan Smith, Belko’s only security guard
Abraham Benrubi as Chet Valincourt, Espencheid’s best friend
Valentine Miele as Ross Reynolds, a sales representative for Belko
Stephen Blackehart as Brian Vargas, an interpreter
Benjamin Byron Davis as Antonio Fowler
Silvia de Dios as Helena Barton
Cindy Better as Lorena Checo
Lorena Tobar as Leezle Freemont, a cafeteria worker.
Joe Fria as Tyson Moon
Mikaela Hoover as Raziya Memarian, Agostino’s assistant
Maruia Shelton as Agnes Meraz