On Wednesday, July 15th, The Knockturnal got the chance to attend the New York premiere of “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” We were able to speak with some of the actors, director Kyle Alvarez and the mind behind the experiment, Dr. Zimbardo, about the process of this indie film.
In the early 1970s, Stanford University Professor Phillip Zimbardo gathered twenty-four university students, split them up half and half as either guards or prisoners, and placed them in a makeshift prison in the basement of one of Stanford’s academic buildings.