‘Take a picture. Take a life.’
Camera Obscura is a 2017 American horror thriller film produced and directed by Aaron B. Koontz (director of shorts The El Chupugcabra; Malevolence) from a screenplay co-written with Cameron Burns. The film is a feature length version of Koontz’s 2015 short film Aperture. It stars Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva and Catherine Curtin.
Today is Jack (Christopher Denham)’s birthday. A former war photographer with ghosts of his own, his girlfriend Claire (Nadja Bobyleva) gifts him with an 80-year-old camera. He spends the next day wandering around town taking photos until he racks up ten rolls of film.
After he picks up the developed pictures, he is surprised to see a dead body in each of the rolls, bodies that were not there when he took the pictures. Jack comes to the terrible realization that these are not pictures of the past, or of some spectral spirit, but prophecies of future events.
He does everything in his power to stop the seemingly inevitable when his girlfriend appears in one of the photos. Is there a way to prevent her predicted demise?
The film is completed and awaiting distribution.
Main cast:
Christopher Denham (The Bay; Camp Hell; Shutter Island), Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine Curtin (Ghoul), Chase Williamson, Noah Segan, Andrew Sensenig (Ayla; We Are Still Here; Don’t Look in the Basement 2), Gretchen Lodge, Jeremy King, Dane Rhodes, David Jensen, Charlie Talbert, Carol Sutton, Lance E. Nichols, Hawn Tran, Cassandra Hierholzer.
Filming locations:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
