Camera Obscura

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Camera Obscura

2017

1h 35m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

06/14/2017

Camera Obscura squanders its intriguing premise with a ham-fisted execution.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

06/09/2017

1/4

None of this makes sense.

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Michael Nordine

IndieWire

06/08/2017

C

Though born of an inventive idea, "Camera Obscura" comes out underdeveloped.

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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.

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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.

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Dominic Griffin

Spectrum Culture

07/17/2019

2/5

Camera Obscura is the rare horror film that fails with style.

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Cristian s

@cristiansj 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.

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03/08/2021

Sought this out after seeing Pale Door and it was pretty good as well!

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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.

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02/08/2019

Story copied from one of the Goosebump novels along with a terrible performing cast, makes a forgetting movie.

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06/02/2018

Crap. Plenty of gratuitous violence, and a few brief flashes of naked knockers, but overall ...crap.

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04/11/2018

Makes little sense, unnecessary slashing as the "plot" is impossible to follow. Don't waste your time.

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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