We have news of a film set to terrorize people in a Turkish bath house! Starring Val Kilmer! We get wind of this project from our friends at comingsoon:
Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown and Patrick Muldoon will star in indie suspense thriller The Steam Experiment, says The Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse.
Kilmer plays a former university professor who overheats his hostages to prove that humans will devolve into chaos under the pressures of global warming. He tells a detective (Assante) that their location will be revealed if his hypothesis is printed as the local paper’s front-page headline. The six potential victims are a former pro football player (Roberts), a former actress (Brown), a nurse (Muldoon), a waitress (Eve Mauro), a restaurateur (Quinn Duffy) and a writer (Cordelia Reynolds). As temperatures rise, the desperate detainees fight for survival.
I like the idea of crazed scientists going to extremes to get their message out. They have the answers, and people don’t listen. They offer suggestions, and they don’t act. They give warnings of doom and people think they are overreacting. Some scientists are probably rolling in bed right now saying “what’s it going to take for people to listen”, so it’s not that much of a Hollywood stretch to think that someone may snap and resort to a diabolical plan for media attention.
I like the premise of this film, but find the Turkish Bath house to be a bit much. I would prefer if a run of the mill building just had the furnace rigged, a Turkish bath house is a place where you would expect things to be hot, and you could also hang out totally nude and enjoy much of your sauna torture till you pass out. Getting locked in at work and having the heat cranked is far more terrifying.
Then again, terror in a bath house is pretty hilarious.
