About the Film

Malibu Road (2021, R, ~95 min) is an independent psychedelic neo-noir thriller written, directed, and led by Montgomery Markland.

The Story

A UCLA psychology professor and a Hollywood starlet ingest LSD on New Year's Eve 1960 at a Malibu hotel. What begins as experimentation becomes entanglement in a CIA mind-control program — identity, sex, drugs, and murder loop until nothing is certain.

MK-Ultra Context

The film draws on the real history of CIA Project MK-Ultra — LSD experiments on unwitting subjects in the 1950s–60s. The backstory grounds the psychedelic mystery in documented paranoia.

Distribution

Available on 23+ platforms worldwide. Watch free on Tubi or rent on Amazon. Banned in China, North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran.