Camera Obscura

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

None of this makes sense.

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

Nothing if not an exhaustive compendium of fright-film motifs.

"Camera Obscura" lurches between gory thriller sequences and dreary character development, and never develops any momentum.

The implied conditional logic governing the camera's curse doesn't extend to the film's amateurish discontinuities ...

There are enjoyable moments scattered throughout... But, for the most part, Camera Obscura falls kind of flat.

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

It's evident from his work here that Koontz is a huge admirer of the horror genre, and I'm genuinely curious to see what he can do on his next effort.

As a horror film, Camera Obscura disappoints.