They called it a 'demonstration.' You won't believe what they showed.
Members of a shadowy group demonstrate techniques of enhanced Interrogation of terrorist suspects. However, the demonstration causes consternation that such techniques were approved.
Acting
Clifford Rose's detached cruelty masks genuine horror.
Direction
John Bruce makes a conference room feel like a crime scene.
Writing
Euphemisms that reveal more than confession ever could.
Director
John Bruce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for British television in 1975, this short film anticipated the CIA's post-9/11 'enhanced interrogation' debates by decades—making its bureaucratic horror feel almost prophetic.
Director John Bruce never made another film; this 35-minute nightmare remains his sole directorial credit, as if the material itself exhausted him.
GB
