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Directed by | Joseph Sorrentino |
Written by | Joseph Sorrentino |
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Cinematography | Diego Romero |
Edited by | Cristóbal Fernández |
Music by | Tony Neiman |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
MK Ultra is a 2022 American psychological thriller film written and directed by ex- intelligence officer Joseph Sorrentino. [1] [2] Based on a true story about the human experimentation program MKUltra conducted by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1960s, the film follows Dr. Ford Strauss ( Anson Mount), a psychiatrist who gets involved in a government experiment and conspiracy involving the use of psychedelic and other mind-controlling substances. It was released theatrically and on video on demand on October 7, 2022.
In the early 1960s, during the CIA's secret and illegal human experimentation program MK-Ultra, [a] Dr. Ford Strauss ( Anson Mount), a psychiatrist, is attempting to get medical LSD testings approved; his moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit, as he is approached by CIA agent Galvin Morgan ( Jason Patric) to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi psychiatric hospital. As he conducts the experiments on a drug addict, an arsonist, a transgender woman, and an animal killer, Dr. Strauss begins to question Agent Morgan’s ethics and disentangles an incomprehensible conspiracy. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Formerly titled Midnight Climax, [7] [8] MK Ultra is the third feature film directed by Joseph Sorrentino, [1] who previously comes from an Intelligence Operations background. [2] He wrote the film based on a true story about the illegal human experimentation program Project MK-Ultra, [9] [10] conducted by Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s. [11] [12] The film is produced by LB Entertainment and Ten Past Nine Productions with Suzy Bergner, Tom Rooker and Sigurjon Sighvatsson as executive producers. [11]
The official trailer has been released on August 31, 2022. [13] The film was released theatrically, and on video on demand on October 7, 2022 [7] in the United States through Cinedigm, [11] and worldwide through Bleiberg Entertainment. [14]
MK Ultra | |
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![]() Official release poster | |
Directed by | Joseph Sorrentino |
Written by | Joseph Sorrentino |
Produced by |
|
Starring | |
Cinematography | Diego Romero |
Edited by | Cristóbal Fernández |
Music by | Tony Neiman |
Production companies |
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Distributed by |
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Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
MK Ultra is a 2022 American psychological thriller film written and directed by ex- intelligence officer Joseph Sorrentino. [1] [2] Based on a true story about the human experimentation program MKUltra conducted by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1960s, the film follows Dr. Ford Strauss ( Anson Mount), a psychiatrist who gets involved in a government experiment and conspiracy involving the use of psychedelic and other mind-controlling substances. It was released theatrically and on video on demand on October 7, 2022.
In the early 1960s, during the CIA's secret and illegal human experimentation program MK-Ultra, [a] Dr. Ford Strauss ( Anson Mount), a psychiatrist, is attempting to get medical LSD testings approved; his moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit, as he is approached by CIA agent Galvin Morgan ( Jason Patric) to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi psychiatric hospital. As he conducts the experiments on a drug addict, an arsonist, a transgender woman, and an animal killer, Dr. Strauss begins to question Agent Morgan’s ethics and disentangles an incomprehensible conspiracy. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Formerly titled Midnight Climax, [7] [8] MK Ultra is the third feature film directed by Joseph Sorrentino, [1] who previously comes from an Intelligence Operations background. [2] He wrote the film based on a true story about the illegal human experimentation program Project MK-Ultra, [9] [10] conducted by Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s. [11] [12] The film is produced by LB Entertainment and Ten Past Nine Productions with Suzy Bergner, Tom Rooker and Sigurjon Sighvatsson as executive producers. [11]
The official trailer has been released on August 31, 2022. [13] The film was released theatrically, and on video on demand on October 7, 2022 [7] in the United States through Cinedigm, [11] and worldwide through Bleiberg Entertainment. [14]