It was only a couple of weeks ago when a poster for “The Experiment,” a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s acclaimed 2001 film “Das Experiment” starring Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr. and Maggie Grace arrived lending some hope that the film was getting close to a theatrical release. But it’s not to be.
MovieWeb reveals that the film will go straight to video store shelves on both DVD and BluRay on September 21st. Directed by Paul Scheuring, perhaps best known as a producer and writer for the TV series “Prison Break,” the story is based on the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment about a group of 20 or so males who play prisoners/prison guards for research purposes, only to have the experiment go to some very dark and frightening places.
While we are still curious about this one, given how long it’s been sitting around waiting for a release, we’re not surprised the film won’t be hitting multiplex screens. We’ll probably will give it a spin at some point, but we’re keeping our expectations on this one pretty low.
ELIJA WOOD WAS NOT IN THE EXPERIMENT.