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A Screambox exclusive:
The suicide of his brother, freshman college student Sean (Will
Jandro), has shattered Tim (Ignacyo Matynia) deeply, especially since he
hadn't picked up a phonecall on the day of his death. So Tim, a
documentary filmmaker decides to make a movie about his brother to find
out the reasons for his brother taking his own life. And he soon finds out
that the months leading up to his death, Sean has been investigating a
Cold War gouvernment project to control the minds of people, the titular Project
MKHEXE - however, something (as in a lot) went wrong with the
experiment, as MKHEXE, instead of controlling people's minds, turned them
all violent. Forutnately then the esperiment was only conducted in small
communities where any mishaps could be easily swept under the rug. Is the
story real or just a conspiracy theory? Tim doesn't know, and neither does
Nicole (Jordan Knapp), a journalist friend of Sean's who eventually helps
with Tim's film. What is interesting though is that the links to most
websites Sean has mentioned in his journal are broken, and the whole
hush-up seems to have been a bit too perfect - which still proves exactly
nothing, so that Tim eventually believes that Sean has killed himself for
some mental issues - he was on anti-depressives -, or he killed himself
out of unrequited love to Nicole. Tim is pretty much about to give up when
he suddenly and inexplicably finds proof that Project MKHEXE's real
indeed. This proof in itself though might prove dangerous ...
Now I will say that at 108 minutes, Project MKHEXE is a
tad on the long side, especially in the first half that's just filled up
with found footage mainstays that have over the years frown
disappointingly old and by today feel more like filler material than
anything else. Plus at times, things are a bit on the repetitive side
here. But the third act really makes up for all of this, as it has
suspense, jump scares and outbursts of violence in all the right moments,
and even the point-of-view shots are used to great advantage and more than
just some shaky camera movement faking excitement. So in all, this blend
of conspiracy thriller, science fiction and horror is a pretty effective
genre ride that mixes somewhat bizarre ideas with good entertainment.
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