The Belko Experiment (2016)

I found "The Belko Experiment" to be an exceptionally entertaining flick. Glad to see that the director behind the "Wolf Creek" movies isn't just a one-trick-pony. Hell, this surpasses those flicks, for sure. Also gotta give props to James Gunn who wrote this one. He seems to be all over the place with his involvement in cool horror films and those talking raccoon Marvel deals. This shit was fun.

An office building full of outsourced employees in Columbia is unexpectedly sealed up one work day, after the workers receive word, via intercom, that they have to kill any two of their own in an allotted amount of time. If this doesn't happen, they are told that many of them will be killed at random, thanks to explosive tracking devices implanted in their heads. Tensions rise to bloody heights as the demanded kill quota is upped and it becomes an increasingly savage, kill-or-be-killed situation throughout the building...

Clearly, this film is very much in the vein of "Battle Royale", to a veritably shameless degree, I'd say. There's some real egregious similarities I saw, lifted right from Kinji Fukasaku's masterpiece, but, overall, that didn't detract from the enjoyment I got out of this one. Hell, we're talking a pretty massive body count, here, complete with mutilations, heads popping, cold-blooded executions, yuppies killing each other with office supplies, etc. I'll definitely give "Belko Royale" props for maintaining a fluid pace and for keeping the punches pulled to a minimum, as far as the violence and gore goes. Just an all around fun, mindless flick.