The Killing Room

The Killing Room (2009) is an American psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Four strangers volunteer for what the ad calls a paid research study. They walk into a room, the door locks, and the compensation package stops making sense.

What they have actually entered is a classified government programme — one that was supposedly shut down two decades ago. Timothy Hutton and Peter Stormare are on the observation side of the one-way glass; Shea Whigham, Nick Cannon and Chloë Sevigny are the ones inside working out the rules before it is too late. Director Jonathan Liebesman keeps the action almost entirely inside that single room, which means the pressure has nowhere to go except inward.

The film is less interested in gore than in the bureaucratic logic of people who decided some knowledge was worth any cost. Cold, controlled, and more uneasy than most genre entries of the same year. Stream The Killing Room (2009) on iFILM.