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The Blackout Experiments

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This documentary follows a group of friends whose experience with Blackout becomes deeply personal, developing into an obsession that hijacks their lives and blurs the line between reality and paranoid fantasy.
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Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com 07/22/2016
2.5/4
There's something here, but it's darker, and more elusive, than perhaps Fox even knows. Go to Full Review
Noel Murray Los Angeles Times 07/21/2016
Like Blackout itself, "The Blackout Experiments" is often chilling and hard to shake. Go to Full Review
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 07/21/2016
The participants provide plenty of heavy breathing about the darkness within, though when the mysterious organizers, a couple of young theater types, finally sit for an on-camera interview, their idea of what it's all about seems pretty vague. Go to Full Review
Sherilyn Connelly SF Weekly 07/20/2016
In the end, the experiment feels more like a hollow thrill than anything else. Go to Full Review
Norman Wilner NOW Toronto 07/20/2016
2/5
It doesn't look like any fun at all, and Fox lets the "victims" tell their stories in video testimonials, explaining why they willingly go back for more. Go to Full Review
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12/30/2018 It was ok. There are much much more extreme haunts than this one (the special is on Netflix). It was cool to see how much it affected these people, but again, if they tried the other haunt they would've given up for sure. See more 09/22/2018 So glad I watched this. Not for everyone. But I loved it. I would love to be part of a Blackout some day. See more 06/29/2017 Good S&M reality show film. Also a good study for abnormal psychology students & a jackoff movie for special forces drill sergeants & interrogators. Conger your worst demons. Now face & conquer them! See more 06/18/2017 I wanted to love this movie. I would have settled for liking it. Unfortunately, it never really figures out exactly what it wants to be... and as a result, fails at everything it attempts. As a documentary, it spins its wheels with endlessly repetitive clips in which the various participants talk about "the darkness" that lives within them. As a horror vehicle, it provides absolutely no thrills and/or chills. In the end, it comes off feeling like a very long, not very good promo for Blackout and the guys who run it. See more 12/15/2016 Sadly the subject seems a lot more interesting than the film which is a pity because the concept looks rather clever but without much substantive input from the designers as to what it's based on or how it is put together the whole thing becomes a bit of a mish-mash. With the participants seemingly willing to be filmed, it's also a shame we couldn't see more of their experience, especially as in some cases it seems to have had beneficial effects. See more 07/28/2016 ''rebirth'' is a better film See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis This documentary follows a group of friends whose experience with Blackout becomes deeply personal, developing into an obsession that hijacks their lives and blurs the line between reality and paranoid fantasy.
Director
Rich Fox
Producer
Kris Curry
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
Ferocious Entertainment
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 22, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 20, 2016
Runtime
1h 21m
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