MK Ultra (film)

MK Ultra
MK Ultra
	File:MK Ultra 2022 film poster.jpg Official release poster
Directed by	Joseph Sorrentino
Written by	Joseph Sorrentino
Produced by	Lee Broda; Brian Mercer; Andreas Schilling; Joseph Sorrentino; Jerry Tankersley; Seth Willenson;
Starring	Anson Mount; Jaime Ray Newman; Jason Patric; Alon Aboutboul; Jen Richards;
Cinematography	Diego Romero
Edited by	Cristóbal Fernández
Music by	Tony Neiman
Production; companies	LB Entertainment; Ten Past Nine Productions;
Distributed by	Cinedigm; Bleiberg Entertainment;
Release date	October 7, 2022;
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. 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.

Premise

In the early 1960s, during the CIA's secret and illegal human experimentation program MK-Ultra, 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.

Cast

Anson Mount as Ford Strauss
Jaime Ray Newman as Rose Strauss
Jason Patric as Galvin Morgan
Alon Aboutboul as Townsend
Jen Richards as Laura Stanley
David Jensen as Dr. Miller
Wanetah Walmsley as Nurse Irwin
Jared Bankens as Gunther
Harrison Stone as Brian Mercer
Matt Nolan as Dwyer
Charles Green as Kevin Mercer
Susan McPhail as Peggy
Cotton Yancey as Senator Mathis
Bill Luckett as Senator Mathis
Robert Aberdeen as The German
Jill Renner as Shelly
Josh Whites as Dallas Shepard
Ted Ford as Confused guard
Dalton Russell as Mental Patient
Tony Key as Desmond
Greg Dees as FBI Agent
Cameron Abel as Father Jerry Schilling

Production

Formerly titled Midnight Climax, The film is produced by LB Entertainment and Ten Past Nine Productions with Suzy Bergner, Tom Rooker and Sigurjon Sighvatsson as executive producers.

Release

The official trailer has been released on August 31, 2022. and worldwide through Bleiberg Entertainment.

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References

External links

MK Ultra at IMDb
MK Ultra on Mubi
MK Ultra on Rotten Tomatoes