MK Ultra is a 2022 American psychological thriller film written and directed by ex-intelligence officer Joseph Sorrentino.

In the early 1960s, during the CIA's secret and illegal human experimentation program MK-Ultra,[a] Dr. Ford Strauss (Anson Mount), a psychiatrist, is attempting to get medical LSD testings approved; his moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit, as he is approached by CIA agent Galvin Morgan (Jason Patric) to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi psychiatric hospital.

As he conducts the experiments on a drug addict, an arsonist, a transgender woman, and an animal killer, Dr. Strauss begins to question Agent Morgan’s ethics and disentangles an incomprehensible conspiracy.

[3][4][5][6] Formerly titled Midnight Climax,[7][8] MK Ultra is the third feature film directed by Joseph Sorrentino,[1] who previously comes from an Intelligence Operations background.

[2] He wrote the film based on a true story about the illegal human experimentation program Project MK-Ultra,[9][10] conducted by Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s.