As to who dies right up at the beginning – take a look at the cast list and work out whose name isn’t that familiar. Why he did this, whether the others are going to die – and how – that’s what the film is all about. Instead the unlucky foursome are played by Clea DuVall, Shea Whigham, Nick Cannon and Timothy Hutton, with the action jumping off when head scientist Dr Phillips arrives to greet the newbies, pulls out a gun and shoots one of them in the head, then beetles off to watch the reactions of the others on the monitors fed by the room’s wall-to-wall cameras. But here’s the kicker – she’s not one of the victims being tantalised and tested by persons unknown she’s one of the scientists making the labrats jump through hoops. The Killing Room joins this expanding genre and is unusual for throwing a couple of proper name actors into the mix – this sort of thing also being notably cheap, it doesn’t tend to attract anyone you’d recognise.Ĭhloe Sevigny is the most standout of the well-known. The “four guys in a room” thriller suits our paranoid times of government snooping, wars waged patently on dishonest principles and the like. The Killing Room (2009, dir: Jonathan Liebesman) It is the only US government agency allowed to use “unvouchered” funds – those without any external oversight or accounting. In 1963 the CIA’s budget was $550million ($4.2 billion inflation-adjusted). The CIA is responsible for counterterrorism, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, intelligence, counter-intelligence and cyber-intelligence. On this day in 1947, the National Security Act was enacted by the US Congress.Īmong other things, it created the Central Intelligence Agency, the successor agency to the Office of Strategic Services, which had been formed during the Second World War to coordinate spying against the Axis powers. A movie for every day of the year – a good one
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