"MK Ultra", the new pyschological thriller, based on drug-induced government mind-control operations in 1961, is written and directed by Joseph Sorrentino, starring Anson Mount and Jason Patric, opening in theaters October 7, 2022:
"...based on the infamous 'CIA' drug experiments from the early 1960's, this psychological thriller follows brilliant psychiatrist 'Ford Strauss' (Anson Mount) who unknowingly becomes entangled with a dangerous government entity fixated on mind control.
"Under 'Project MK Ultra', the CIA ran an illegal human experimentation program intended to develop procedures and identify drugs such as 'LSD' that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture, out of a rural 'Mississippi Mental Hospital'..."
