Decorated heroes, broken minds, and a facility that lies about everything.
A group of United States marine corps veterans who were decorated for valor during combat all subsequently experience serious mental disorders. To probe the mystery and seek its cause and cure, the US government establishes a secret military rest camp where they are hidden and studied. But soon they will discover that no one is who they seem to be, revealing the real purpose of that facility.
Acting
Manley and Whitaker carry veteran fragility with crushing weight.
Direction
Vila weaponizes institutional spaces into psychological traps.
Production
The facility itself becomes a suffocating character.
Director
Rodrigo H. Vila
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vila developed this after discovering real MKUltra-adjacent programs targeting decorated veterans in the 1970s.
The film's title refers to the ninth experimental compound tested at Edgewood Arsenal, a real chemical weapons facility.
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