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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The acting here is really quite poor, even Christopher Denham is far from the quality of his performance in Billions. The premise is quite fun in an obvious way, Photographer with PTSD, starts to unravel further when he finally musters the courage to start shooting again with an old camera that has as much baggage as he has, capturing things on film that may not be there... yet. It's really just a series of tropes, but despite its flaws it's oddly enjoyable and for all its predictability it does manage to raise the pulse, but there's no edge.*Apologies for the poor title to this review, I needed a laugh after this.

Saw 'Camera Obscura', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued by the quite creative premise. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing it.Giving 'Camera Obscura' a fair chance with being interest and apprehension, it turned out to be far better than expected. Won't say that 'Camera Obscura' is a great film because it isn't and the potential, while not wasted, is not fully lived up to. Considering the large number of films seen recently being mediocre and less and wasting potential, was expecting worse and was relieved that while wanting in a fair few areas it was actually one of my better recent low-budget viewings.Starting with the positives, generally the production values could have been much worse. There is a real sense of eeriness, foreboding and a decently stylish atmosphere, and it makes the most of the confined and at times effectively claustrophobic setting. The music is also suitably haunting and manages to not be too intrusive, likewise with the sound not being too obvious (a bugbear of mine with low-budget viewings recently).There is tension, suspense and genuine creepiness. The acting is better than average, particularly from the leads and the direction is assured in the first half while slackening later.Would have liked however more tension and suspense in the second half particularly and for some of the scares that become more prominent in the second half to be more creative and less trying-too-hard to the point of cheesiness, particularly when it becomes more prominent in the action. The dialogue is cheesy and awkward generally. Found that the story could have been executed better too. Too many parts are uneventful, the narrative structure is not always coherent and it can feel padded, not to mention an ending that perplexes in its anti-climactic and muddled convolution. The mystery and psychological elements needed more focus, the latter was underexplored and muddled somewhat at times. There are exceptions to the better than expected production values, the effects are shoddy and the editing could have been tighter.Overall, better than expected but didn't blow me away. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Started out okay, typical B movie, but eventually nothing was happening. I began to space in and out of the movie, and lost track of what his motivation was. At one point he was trying to find a job, and was complaining about having to take pictures of real estate, and then the next moment he's looking at photos. He suddenly comes to the conclusion that the pictures were telling the future. Maybe it was edited poorly, or maybe it did explain, but I dozed off because it was starting to get boring. Either way this is a snooze fest. I personally thought they should have ditched the whole camera storyline, and gone with the fat greasy stalker that was following the girlfriend, while she was jogging. That was the only creepy thing in this entire movie.

A man gets an old WWII era camera that he uses as therapy to get over his post traumatic disorders. He fires off ten rolls of film and discovers that in each roll of developed film there is a picture of someone dead. Every death depicted happens within a few days. He discovers one of the pictures is his fiancé. He tries to stop fate by substituting a life for hers but it only delays things a little bit. Before you know it he is a full fledged serial killer trying to preserve his future wife.The film is a slight variation of the Final Destination series meets Shudder which is basically messing with death. This one pulls off the tension pretty good with some violent deaths. Fast paced with a synthesizer type soundtrack. The problem with this one is that it peters out near the end, almost as if the writer got tired Overall not bad.5 hacksawed heads out of 10.