Unspectacular yet refreshingly diverting, THE FACILITY is thankfully not a "found footage" movie despite the usual preamble text, and first time writer/director Ian Clark takes some risks (for a low budget horror movie that will find its largest audience in rental, retail, and streaming) in overturning expectations set up by the familiar scenario. Seven volunteer test subjects - "big dog" realtor Jed (Oliver Coleman, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL), journalist Katie (Nia Roberts, THE THEORY OF FLIGHT), puppyish post-grad Adam (Aneurin Barnard, CITADEL), aimless student Carmen (Skye Lourie, THE HOLDING), introverted Arif (Amit Shah, THE BLUE TOWER), and professional lab rats Joni (Alex Reid, THE DESCENT) and Morty (Steve Evets, ANNA KARENINA) - arrive at the isolated Limebrook Clinic to participate in a two week trial of a Prosyntrex Pharmaceuticals experimental drug called Pro9. They will be sharing a wing in the largely empty facility and are ordered not to leave the building and advised not to engage in strenuous activity by the supervising physician Dr. Mansell (Chris Larkin, ANGELS & INSECTS). Hours after the first injection, the first of the test subjects (followed soon by the second) start to experience side effects ranging from painful to psychotic, killing Dr. Mansell and triggering a lockdown of the facility. As the others try to evade their psychotic ones, they also have to worry about succumbing to the effects of the drug themselves. With seemingly no help coming from the outside (and the danger they might pose should they go out in search of help), they try to find out the nature of Pro9 and how to counteract its effects.