Dr. Phillips

Dr. Phillips is the main antagonist in the 2009 psychological thriller The Killing Room. He is portrayed by Peter Stormare, who also portrayed Count Vertigo and Abram Tarasov.

Biography
He is a high-ranking CIA operative and tasked with brutal, modern version of the Project MKULTRA indoctrination program. In order to do so, Phillips invites four test subjects - three men and a woman - to the research facility. They are brought into a large, white room, in which the tables and chairs have been bolted to the floor. Phillips poses as a researcher and hands everyone a questionnaire to fill out. The test subjects have previously been told that they are part of a psychological research study and will each be paid 250 dollars.

However, once everyone has completed the questionnaire, Phillips enters the room, shoots the female into the head and immediately leaves again. As the remaining test subjects freak out, they are informed over loudspeaker that they have to endure several more tests and only one of them will survive. Over the course of the next hours, they become subject to severe physical and psychological brutality. While this is happening, Phillips and other scientists watch the experiments from outside, including Dr. Reilly, a new member of the team who is being worked in by Phillips. She is at first shocked by Phillips cruelty and the entire program, but soon decides to keep working with him.

When one of the test subjects attempts to escape the facility, it is revealed that he is still part of the experiment and is going exactly where they want him to go. While he arrives in another room where "phase 2" is introduced, Phillips reveals to Reilly that the goal of the experiment is to achieve in human civilians a phenomenon similar to apoptosis in cells by developing "civilian weapons" akin to suicide bombers.