Compliance (2012) 8/10

Starring : Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp
Director : Craig Zobel
Running Time : 90 mins

Fast food restaurant manager Sandra (Dowd) receives a phone call from the police claiming that Becky (Walker), one of her employees, has stolen money from a customer. As she follows instructions to help the police over the phone, she finds herself being forced to do more and more unreasonable things in order to prove Becky’s guilt.

This is a pretty disturbing movie, all the more so as it was based on true events. The prank caller that tries to encourage otherwise reasonable people into abusing the victim of the prank manages to manoeuvre his targets in such an obviously manipulative way it’s hard to understand how anyone could have fallen for his routine. Personally I’d have told him to send a squad car round and hung up on him.

You’ll like this if you liked : Havoc