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Camera Obscura

Play trailer 1:32 Poster for Camera Obscura 2017 1h 35m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Jack Zeller is an intelligent, solitary man who continues to struggle with the horrors he witnessed as a war photographer. He receives a strange camera as an anniversary gift. As he develops the film, Jack realizes that the images show imminent deaths in the locations he photographed. As one horrific scene after another comes true, Jack is left with an enormous moral dilemma that challenges his already fragile sanity.

Critics Reviews

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 06/14/2017
Camera Obscura squanders its intriguing premise with a ham-fisted execution. Go to Full Review Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com 06/09/2017
1/4
None of this makes sense. Go to Full Review Michael Nordine IndieWire 06/08/2017
C
Though born of an inventive idea, "Camera Obscura" comes out underdeveloped. Go to Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh 02/06/2021
3/5
Mostly pays off its ambiguous and psychological premise but feels unsure of itself, keeping itself too vague to its own detriment...there's nothing the film really does wrong, so if the concept sounds interesting, you're sure to enjoy it. Go to Full Review Joey Keogh Wicked Horror 10/07/2019
5/10
There are enjoyable moments scattered throughout... But, for the most part, Camera Obscura falls kind of flat. Go to Full Review Dominic Griffin Spectrum Culture 07/17/2019
2/5
Camera Obscura is the rare horror film that fails with style. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Cristian s 01/24/2024 Dentro de todo me gustó, tiene buen ritmo y en todo momento juega con eso de no saber si realmente está pasando o el protagonista está descendiendo a la locura. Los problemas principales sería que tiene un par de incoherencias en la historia y cosas que nunca se explican del todo bien a la vez que el final parece hasta hecho sin ganas, medio que no sabían cómo terminarla y le mandaron así nomás. See more 03/08/2021 Sought this out after seeing Pale Door and it was pretty good as well! See more 06/14/2019 I had to muscle my way through this one with a few glasses of wine. Ooof, Camera Obscura feels extemporaneous and completely lacking in direction from Koontz. The idea isn't bad, but I couldn't care less for anybody in the film and yeah...its just a mess. Definitely one of the worst films I've ever seen. I give it a half star for a great poster. See more 02/08/2019 Story copied from one of the Goosebump novels along with a terrible performing cast, makes a forgetting movie. See more 06/02/2018 Crap. Plenty of gratuitous violence, and a few brief flashes of naked knockers, but overall ...crap. See more 04/11/2018 Makes little sense, unnecessary slashing as the "plot" is impossible to follow. Don't waste your time. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Aaron B. Koontz

Director

Christopher Denham

Jack Zeller

Nadja Bobyleva

Claire Zeller

Noah Segan

Walt

Andrew Sensenig

Charlie Hibbert

Catherine Curtin

Det. Dawson

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Camera Obscura

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Movie Info

Synopsis Jack Zeller is an intelligent, solitary man who continues to struggle with the horrors he witnessed as a war photographer. He receives a strange camera as an anniversary gift. As he develops the film, Jack realizes that the images show imminent deaths in the locations he photographed. As one horrific scene after another comes true, Jack is left with an enormous moral dilemma that challenges his already fragile sanity.
Director
Aaron B. Koontz
Producer
Andrew van den Houten, Amir Zbeda, Aaron B. Koontz
Screenwriter
Aaron B. Koontz, Cameron Burns
Distributor
Chiller Films
Production Co
Hood River Entertainment, Paper Street Pictures, Chiller Films
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 9, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 13, 2017
Runtime
1h 35m