Watch The Stanford Prison Experiment For Free

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This movie matched the experiment perfectly and while it was beautifully executed and super enthralling is extremely horrific and traumatizing to see what normal humans can become

Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.Anyone who has taken a psychology course is familiar with this experiment, or at least the summary version of it. When put in a position of authority, people become the role they are given. The prisoners likewise become more and more like the role they are portraying. This in itself is interesting, but is only the surface.This film gets into the deeper story that the textbooks tend to gloss over: the nudity, sexual humiliation, violence to the point of torture. How the heck Zimbardo and the school did not get sued into oblivion is beyond me.

The Stanford Prison Experiment makes for compelling reading/viewing, whichever format you choose to partake in, it's science gone bonkers and has the power to chill the blood. Did we need another film version? Especially since Das Experiment (2001) is an outstanding film and clearly the one that is recommended as a first port of call on the subject? As it is this Kyle Patrick Alvarez directed version is special as well, managing to get under the skin whilst being vivid in detail. Not just for 1971 period accuracy's (clothes/social traits et al), but across the board characterisations, as it's well written and performed.Not recommended for those who may be down on the human race, or for those obviously after a good time. But good film making is worth time investment, as is eye opening of the human condition. 7/10

I love a thriller and this movie did not disappoint. The plot was basically a psychology lecturer (Doctor) get 18 young men to volunteer 2 weeks of their lives for $15 a day to be in a simulated prison environment. 9 become prison guards and 9 become prisoners.The prisoners are picked up blind folded and basically taken to a makeshift prison and the guards are in shifts of 3 that take care of the prisoners. From the beginning prisoners are read rules and they have been all told guards will not touch them etc.It gets totally engrossing when the guards realise they have power and they become sadistic and cruel and totally abuse the power given to them, acting out of character and the prisoners end up weak and their identities destroyed and taken away from them, 3 of the stronger ones coming to close to meltdowns and a breakdown.Such a good movie and to realise it is real made me shudder but it was totally interesting and I couldn't stop watching it. I recommend this film, its an amazing thriller and knowing it really happened makes it even more worrying.