Chris Hemsworth is a Mad Scientist in ‘Spiderhead’
The inmates at Spiderhead Penitentery have signed up for a punishment they didn’t expect in this Netflix movie.
This Netflix original is based on The New Yorker short story, Escape From Spiderhead by George Saunders. In the near future, a group of inmates in a high-tech prison has agreed to be part of a series of drug trials. Injecting people with random substances that alter their emotions? What could go wrong?
The premise presents a mix of sci-fi questions we’ve already seen over the decades. Is it moral to use prisonsers for scientific testing? Should we be messing with human brains like this? What happens if a person becomes god to a group of isolated people? Thought-provoking, innovative, and novel answers are still possible. Let’s hope that’s what they come up with – as Netflix original movies run the gamut from Oscar award winners to absolute dreck.
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Spiderhead Details
The cast includes Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Chris Hemsworth. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick, Tron: Legacy) is directing; the script is from writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland).
Two inmates form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary who experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs.
Spiderhead arrives on Netflix on June 17th.
