One man grabs it to shoot the other two, who tell him to check the magazine. One Bullet Left: At one stage of the experiment, a gun is thrown into the room.The anonymous researcher secretly watching the experiment then brags, "It used to take six to eight hours to reach this point, but leaving those names really sped up the process." Then they find names are scratched all over the walls. Kilroy Was Here: One subject finds HELP ME and a list of names has been scratched into the wall.The head researcher has already killed two subjects with a Boom, Headshot!, and he tells her that it's more merciful to just get it over quickly if you're required to kill a man. Implied Death Threat: The NSA psychiatrist steals the swipe card and it looks like she might free the subjects.Here We Go Again!: The Sole Survivor apparently escapes only to end up in a room with two other prisoners, in the next stage of the experiment.The head scientist then demands the return of his swipe card. As they're fleeing down the corridor and the Red Alert goes off, we cut back to her watching the subjects through a double-sided mirror, being unable to go through with it. Daydream Surprise: The NSA psychiatrist steals the swipe card to the titular room, slips into the room and frees the two subjects who are still alive.Turns out the words have been put there deliberately by the researchers, so having to use blood to see them is likely a deliberate Mind Screw. A cut later there's blood smears all around the room, showing they're just the latest of many victims. The words have been painted over, so they take the blood from a member of their group who has already been killed and smear it on the walls to make out the words. Couldn't Find a Pen: One of the subjects finds what appears to be a message from the previous occupants scratched into the wall.They never leave the premises, and it's implied that if the new recruit does try to walk out before the experiment runs its course, she'll be killed. The film also covers the man running the experiment and a new recruit for the program. They're then told only one can get out alive. Closed Circle: Four subjects are locked in a room for a psychological experiment.Blood-Splattered Warrior: In the end the subjects decide to rush the door next time it is opened, and one of them covers himself with blood from a dead subject to make his body slippery so he can't be grabbed.As the movie ends with him being scheduled for "Phase 2" of the experiment, it would have been more merciful if the trope had been played straight. Mooks then burst into the room and kill the other subject, as that's what they're testing for (the experiment is meant to brainwash people into becoming suicide bombers). The only black subject appears to have the least will to survive, and when they're down to two members decides to kill himself in a Heroic Suicide. The sole female member is then immediately shot to set the stakes. Black Dude Dies First: The subjects are told they'll be eliminated one at a time in a psychological experiment. As he quickly shoves the gun in his mouth there's a gunshot, and bloodsplatter, then several other gunshots - the researchers have burst into the room and shoot his companion, as the test is meant to recruit people capable of sacrificing themselves in Suicide Attacks. The other has a gun with one bullet, so he decides to kill himself in a Heroic Sacrifice. Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: In the end it's down to two people, one of whom seems more likely to survive.
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