The Belko Experiment

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The Belko Experiment

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2017

1h 30m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

Action

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An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees at the Belko Corp. in Bogotá, Colombia, learn that they are pawns in a deadly game. Trapped inside their building, a voice over an intercom tells the frightened staffers that two workers must be killed within 30 minutes. When another ultimatum follows, friends become enemies and new alliances take shape, as only the strongest will remain alive at the end.

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Critics Consensus

The Belko Experiment offers a few moments of lurid fun for genre enthusiasts, but lacks enough subversive smarts to consistently engage once the carnage kicks in.

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

Dec 27, 2017

2/4

The disappointment of The Belko Experiment, then, is that it shifts so abruptly into horror-film terrain that it fails to examine the way this office has brainwashed these characters.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

Oct 11, 2017

3.5/5

Going about its grisly business with undisguised relish, the film comes closer to the chilly spirit of science fiction writer J.G. Ballard than director Ben Wheatley did in his recent, overwrought adaptation of Ballard's novel High-Rise.

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Angie Han

Slashfilm

Jun 13, 2017

6.5/10

The Belko Experiment isn't much more than a good time at the theater, but it isn't really trying to be and doesn't really have to be.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Apr 4, 2022

3/4

Somewhere between Office Space and Battle Royale, the scenario of The Belko Experiment turns a corporate setting into a gladiatorial bloodbath.

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David Gonzalez

The Cinematic Reel

Feb 18, 2022

2.5/4

While The Belko Experiment leaves little to desire in terms of its characters, the film is quite entertaining in regards to its premise and whos next dynamic that plays throughout.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

Jul 2, 2021

If we're in Trump's America now, then this is the movie for these times. The Belko Experiment is rage.

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Marco L

@decatur555 Oct 22, 2026

A nasty, efficient office-survival thriller, The Belko Experiment works best when it turns corporate hierarchy into moral collapse. Greg McLean directs James Gunn's script with speed and brutality, while a cast full of familiar faces gives even thinly written characters extra weight. Tony Goldwyn is especially effective as authority turned ruthless pragmatism, while John Gallagher Jr. provides the moral counterforce. The violence is dry, physical and often shocking, and the film wisely avoids making recognizable actors feel safe. Its black humor comes from the collision between office routines and outright carnage. The satire could go much deeper, and some characters are little more than pieces in the mechanism, but the pacing is strong and the group dynamics remain engaging. Cruel, entertaining and very effective genre filmmaking.

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Jack F

@MovieFan111 Oct 15, 2026

It's Office Space meets Battle Royale. The result? Derivative garbage. It wasn't a good movie. The gore looks fake anyway. I don't want to say I wasted my time, but it was pretty terrible.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 5, 2026

The Belko Experiment is a 2.5 star Movie!

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Mathieu G

@RT56446365 Sep 28, 2026

This movie was a huge miss. Cant believe James Gunn wrote this. The acting is not strong enough to support a script that makes no sense. Only watch if you’re into senseless gore. Somehow the ending is even dumber.

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Michael D

@RT54178660 Aug 28, 2026

It was okay overall. nothing really stood out as amazing or particularly new. Everything unfolded pretty much as expected, aside from one death that felt out of place (still not sure if it was intentional or just poor writing). The final conclusion was anticlimactic but not terrible. I’ve definitely seen both worse and better.

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Bill F.

@Boombastic69 Jun 19, 2026

I suppose the acting is ok, because I truly did dislike these characters by the end of the film. This movie continues the same architecture that most suspense/horror movies follows. For instance, good guy grabs gun and shoots bad guy in leg. Then stands there in victory and drops their only weapon, purposefully. Turns and walks away in slow motion as bad guy grab said weapon and takes out the good guy. Biggest pet peeve in just about any movie. This type of infuriating situation happens in almost every conflict scene in this film. It’s like “come on man”. Can’t the good guy have the slightest bit of self preservation in any modern movie? Overall fun to watch but still replaying tired overused good guy themes.

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Tony Goldwyn

Barry Norris

Adria Arjona

Leandra Flores

John C. McGinley

Wendell Dukes

Josh Brener

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Synopsis

An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees at the Belko Corp. in Bogotá, Colombia, learn that they are pawns in a deadly game. Trapped inside their building, a voice over an intercom tells the frightened staffers that two workers must be killed within 30 minutes. When another ultimatum follows, friends become enemies and new alliances take shape, as only the strongest will remain alive at the end.

Director: Greg McLean
Producer: James Gunn, Peter Safran
Screenwriter: James Gunn
Distributor: BH Tilt
Production Co: Safran Company
Rating: R (Sexual References|Language|Some Drug Use|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 17, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 13, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.2M
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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