I saw this movie as a preteen, and like the other reviewers, I've never been able to forget its impact. It's loosely based on Stanley Milgram's "Yale Experiment" testing obedience to authority. Students were asked to administer shocks to an (unseen?) subject; it's not a spoiler to say they continue to increase the strength of the shocks just because they're told to, although they can hear the escalating screams of the "subject." The movie chronicles the surprise of the scientists running the experiment when some 65 percent of the students went to "the tenth level," and the lasting effect on the those who took part. That such a little-seen movie made such an impression proves it deserves a shot on DVD, perhaps coupled with a documentary on Milgram, who, by the way, is also the scientist behind the "six degrees of separation" theory.
Review of The Tenth Level
