What initially attracted me to 'The Killing Room' were Chloë Sevigny and Clea DuVall. However, this supposed psychological thriller that tries to be intelligent fails in psychology, logic and suspense. It's a very boring movie. For the first 80 minutes, it tries to be one of those mind-control flicks with four people trapped in a room with translucent white walls. The only girl in the group (Clea Duvall who is wasted here) is killed off within the first 5 minutes after which the other three mumble incomprehensibly with the occasional screaming. The psychologist Emily Reilly (Chloë Sevigny in a thankless role) is shocked by what she sees and is conflicted every now and then but she does nothing. One can't be bothered to connect to any of the characters. Every now and then, people wearing white lab coats will pop-up (I guess they're supposed to be evil scientists). In the last 10 minutes, we learn that these people are being trained to be suicide bombers. This is a bit what the f***! What..how...what! This is one of the worst twists. How can you scare people into suicide bombers? How much researcher has the writer done? Doesn't he know that suicide bombers are fearless and they blindly believe that what they're doing is for a great cause? 'The Killing Room' thinks it's cleverly written and it tries to shock and engage but it miserably fails on all counts.
Review of The Killing Room
