As we eagerly await the March release of Greg McLean’s The Belko Experiment, animation director Lee Hardcastle – creator of The ABCs of Death segment T is for Toilet – has given us something rather brilliant to tide us over; a claymation short based on the upcoming horror. It’s brief but also, as we’ve come to expect from Hardcastle, bloody and brutal.
The Belko Experiment has a storming cast that includes genre icon Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Walking Dead), Tony Goldwyn (Friday the 13th Part VI, 2009’s The Last House on the Left), John C. McGinley (Scrubs, Office Space), Adria Arjona (True Detective), John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane, Hush) and Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Super).
McLean – the man behind Wolf Creek, Rogue and The Darkness – directs from a script by James Gunn, who has previous with Rooker, having cast him in his films Slither and Guardians of the Galaxy.
On what appears to be a normal day at Belko Industries, Belko employees are horrified when they find out that they’ve become guinea pigs in a company-wide experiment which will lead them to either kill their fellow employees or be murdered themselves. The experiment is masterminded by a mysterious voice which is controlling the loud speaker and instructing the employees to slaughter each other by any means necessary.
The Belko Experiment will hit US cinemas on March 17th, before reaching UK shores on April 21st.
Words: Kevan Farrow (@KevanX)
