Double Blind 2024
Sinopsis
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Cast
- Millie Brady as Claire.
- Pollyanna McIntosh as Dr. Burke.
- Akshay Kumar as Amir Sardar.
- Diarmuid Noyes as Ray.
- Brenock O’Connor as Paul.
- Abby Fitz as Alison.
- Shonagh Marie as Vanessa.
- Frank Blake as Marcus.
Review
Double Blind wastes no time, and for this I am grateful. It opens with a zooming shot on a caged lab rat, which is promptly lifted from above by a latex-gloved hand and beheaded off-camera by a garish, oversized mouse-beheading device. This, believe it or not, is a great microcosm of the movie as a whole: efficient, practical, stylish, a touch dramatic, and ultimately effective.
The film opens with a young woman named Claire arriving at a Blackwood Pharmaceutical facility, looking a touch distraught and descending into a windowless underground test lab where she will be participating in a five-day, double-blind drug trial alongside six other twenty-something volunteers. The group will be onsite throughout the duration of the trial, sleeping, eating, and living in the underground dorm. They’re introduced to the physician conducting the trial, given their first dose, and move on to a group meal where they casually banter.
