Director – Craig Zobel
Writers – Craig Zobel
Production Company – Bad Cop Bad Cop Productions, Dogfish Pictures, Muskat Filmed Properties
Writers – Craig Zobel
Production Company – Bad Cop Bad Cop Productions, Dogfish Pictures, Muskat Filmed Properties
Stars – Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker
Compliance isn’t exactly a horror movie, unless you take
into account that this really happened, and happened a lot. Compliance follows a particular incident that
happened in Mount Washington Kentucky, where a prank caller posing as a police
officer, manages to talk quite a few people into doing crazy things all in the
name of following authority. I think it's OK to go into this movie knowing the whole story, but spoilers are to follow.
Ann Dowd plays Sandra, the restaurant manager, receives a
prank call from a man impersonating a police officer. Sandra is under some intense pressure
throughout the movie to keep her restaurant running but also field this phone
call. Sandra’s being told that one of
her workers has stolen from a customer that day. She will be asked to assist the “police
officer”over the phone.
Spoilers
Becky played by Dreama Walker is the naive teenager who is accused
of the theft and brought to a back room, where her life’s about to change. The caller demands that employees search
Becky. She’s brought into an office and ordered to remove her clothes. Sandra is slightly reluctant while performing
the strip search, but is almost romanced by the prank caller into complying
with his demands.
Many other people will participate at various points in the
movie, but none are worse than Sandra’s fiancé.
Van is asked to drive into the restaurant to help Sandra with the
situation. Van doesn’t even work there, but the prank caller wants a male to
watch Becky, one that Sandra trusts.
What follows are two hours of utter disbelief for me, Becky is searched
over by Van in very demeaning ways, and it will all end with an implied full on
sexual assault – and Van leaving the restaurant saying he’s done something bad.
Sandra throughout the movie remains unaware of just how far the prank has gone concerning
Van.
Eventually a maintenance man is brought in to watch Becky,
after Van rushes out. He actually
refuses to comply with the caller, and that’s when everyone becomes aware that
they’ve been duped.
End Spoilers
If I would have seen this movie and not have known it was
actually based on truth I would have thought the story was really out there,
and honestly, might have written off the movie. Knowing it’s based on truth I
can really say I enjoyed this film immensely.
The cast is top notch, it’s filmed beautifully, and the music is
atmospheric. I felt like I was trapped in that room with Becky, and this whole time the rest of the place is just booming with regular patrons enjoying their food.
I highly recommend this movie, and think if you go in
knowing it’s based on truth, it makes it even more enjoyable...except you might be yelling at the screen a few times!
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