The Employer

THE EMPLOYER is a psychological thriller about a contest for a job that becomes a competition for survival. Five strangers, all out-of-work business executives, are kidnapped and drugged. They wake up trapped in a locked room, and are informed that they have become unwilling participants in an experimental corporate interview process. Based on the critically-acclaimed, award-winning 2013 film starring Malcolm McDowell, written and directed by Frank Merle.

THE EMPLOYER is a psychological thriller about a contest for a job that becomes a competition for survival. Five qualified candidates have been interviewing for a job with the Carcharias Corporation, a large, successful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room with no hope of escape. Soon, they receive a phone call from the man who interviewed them, the CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, and it's not at all what they were expecting. Based on the critically-acclaimed, award-winning 2013 film starring Malcolm McDowell, written and directed by Frank Merle.

Frank Merle is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter who served as artistic director of Chicago's critically-acclaimed Keyhole Theatre Company and directed over 30 professional stage productions before turning his attention to film in 2006. Since then, he has written five feature-length screenplays and has written and directed several award-winning short films, as well as the feature thriller The Employer, starring Malcolm McDowell.