Well, I wanted to enjoy this single-location thriller, about six people who are trapped in a sauna with ever-increasing heat eventually driving them out of their minds. Unfortunately, the sauna scenes are so poorly shot - in some kind of arty way which looks like vaseline has been smeared over the lens - that it renders the film almost unwatchable.

It's a pity, because a decent B-movie cast has been wasted on this one. Val Kilmer is the guy behind everything, and Armand Assante the detective trying to get to the bottom of things. They have lots of talky moments in the interview room which are pretty dull and just included to pad out the running time a little.

The stuff in the sauna is better, although as it transpires quite predictable; you can easily guess how the characters will fall apart. The youthful cast members are pretty poor, and the females seem to be included for how they look in and out of bikinis rather than any acting talent. But Eric Roberts holds things together, as always, and Patrick Muldoon (STARSHIP TROOPERS) is a nice surprise too. It's just a pity the execution is so bad on this one.

This movie did so well as "The Chaos Experiment" they renamed it "The Steam Experiment" and re-released it. After the original came out, the state of California reacted to the film and made it illegal for Eric Roberts and Val Kilmer to be in a movie together for the greater good of humanity.

Val Kilmer shows up at a Grand Rapids newspaper and wants his manifesto published on how global warming is going to destroy the world in 2012. He claims he has 6 people held hostage in a steam bath and they are going to die. The police are called in and the movie swaps back and forth between the steam room and the police interrogation, neither of which has enough drama, acting, or clever script to hold my attention. Once Eve Mauro put her top back on, the movie was over for me. Oh yeah, there is a twist at the end which only makes the movie worse, if that is possible.

Doesn't work as a horror, drama, action, or thriller.

F-bomb, nudity, a mouthy Italian, and a cop with a pinkie ring.

Also known as THE CHAOS EXPERIMENT, this scramble for survival flick just doesn't really hit the spot. Val Kilmer no less; when is he going to make another good movie? Kilmer plays a scientist that may have been around too many chemicals or just over compensating for his book learning. He goes to a local paper wanting the next morning's headline and his expose on global warning featured. To prove he knows what he's talking about, the deranged doc admits to holding six people hostage in a renovated hotel steam room and the heat will gradually keep rising. He wants to prove that humanity will snap under such pressures of global warning. Detective Mancini(Armand Assante)tries to beat the clock and free the hostages. Six sweaty half naked people don't have much patience when the fear and paranoia begins to boil over. Also in the cast: Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, Eve Mauro, Quinn Duffy, Patrick Muldoon and Cordelia Reynolds.