THE LAST EXPERIMENT is a low budget horror outing that has potential but squanders it through a generally overly familiar feel and slightly sub-par execution. It's hard to put your finger on what exactly is wrong with this movie, because the storyline isn't bad at all and the pacing is spot on. But it never manages to be scary or thrilling for a moment, and instead is content to wallow in gross-out scenes rather than moments of genuine exhilaration.

The plot is about a group of diverse characters who volunteer as test subjects in a remote research installation. Unfortunately the drugs they're given have all manner of violent side effects which soon become apparent. The plot becomes more and more convoluted as it goes on, until the ridiculous twist ending. Also, THE LAST EXPERIMENT lacks decent actors to bring the characters to life, and you can feel the inexperience from most of the cast. Only a cameoing Eric Roberts reminds you of the calibre of actor who should be appearing in this sort of thing.

Two college kids decide to allow themselves to be guinea pigs for pharmaceutical testing in order to make some extra cash. Greg (Travis Van Winkle) and Aaron (Joe Pingue) are given a tour of the place by Nigel (Rik Young) whose quirky character was reminiscent of Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys."

The facility looks like a prison hospital. They are told they are testing a new allergy drug, but the guys are hip enough to know better. They also suspect someone in the group will get the placebo.

Dr. Wilcox (Tricia Helfer) runs the experiment and tries to keep things under control when they get out of hand. Weird things happen as there is a slow and steady build-up. Eventually a snooping patient (the one with the placebo) finds out what the real experiment is about and wants out. Leaving is not an option.

Decent sci-fi horror until Eric Roberts showed up at the end. Good sound track.

F-bomb, sex, nudity (Mircea Monroe) attempted rape.

Starts out fairly decent, first 30 minutes is more of a comedy than anything else.

The quickly changes after that though and turns into something more in the horror territory.

And that's also where the movie starts falling apart.

In some aspects it works, it did have a good set-up and a decent enough cast, plus the cinematography was pretty cool and decent atmosphere but it's just the incredibly contrived writing that gets in the way.

I'd rather have no reasoning than what we are given and there so many logical loopholes in the characters motives and reactions that you can go hula-hooping with them.