Camera Obscura (2017) is a psychological horror-thriller film directed by Aaron B. Koontz. The movie centers around themes of paranoia, trauma, and the blurred lines between reality and hallucination, as it follows a photographer who is haunted by the disturbing images captured through his camera.
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Jack Zeller (Christopher Denham), a war photographer who struggles with PTSD and the psychological aftermath of his experiences. As a form of therapy, his fiancée Claire (Nadja Bobyleva) gives him a vintage camera as a gift, encouraging him to get back into photography. Jack begins taking pictures again, but soon discovers that the camera has a strange, supernatural ability.
When Jack develops the photos, he realizes that the camera predicts deaths—each picture showing a scene of someone about to die in gruesome and violent ways. These deaths begin to happen exactly as they appear in the photos, leaving Jack caught in a terrifying cycle of fate and horror. As the images become more and more disturbing, Jack finds himself increasingly unable to separate reality from hallucination, spiraling into madness.
Torn between trying to prevent the deaths and avoiding the growing terror of what his camera reveals, Jack becomes consumed by fear and paranoia. As he descends further into madness, he must confront both the horrors of his past and the dark power of the camera.
