Das Experiment

Big Brother meets Survivor at Heinrich Himmler's house. Loosely based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box (which was itself taken from the infamous Stanford Prison experiment of 1971, in which citizen “guards” and citizen “prisoners” were placed in an artificially created prison environment for 14 days to see just what would happen to presumably normal people in such conditions), Das Experiment relocates its action to a nameless German city, which imbues this German-made film with vague but unavoidable Nazi overtones. Claustrophobic and clinical, predictable yet satisfying, Das Experiment doesn't tell you anything about human nature you probably haven't already suspected, but then again it's good to be reminded of these dark things from time to time. Especially these days.