Camera Obscura (2017) on Netflix
Jack Zeller, a war photographer, comes home from Iraq with post-traumatic stress. Photographs he takes with an old antique camera show him deaths that have not happened yet.
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- Netflix1.9/5
- IMDb4.6/101,059 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes30%
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Plot summary
Jack Zeller is a veteran war photographer who returns home from Iraq with post-traumatic stress. He struggles to keep his sanity and his family intact. With an old antique camera, he takes photographs in which he sees deaths that have not yet happened. Those pictures put the people he loves in danger, and they leave him questioning his own fragile sanity.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Camera Obscura (2017)
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- Aaron B. Koontz wrote Camera Obscura after a co-worker returned from South America, where locals refused to be photographed because it "would steal their souls"; he also drew on a true story of a man with PTSD who attacked people on a freeway.
- Barbara Crampton had signed on to Camera Obscura at one point, but she dropped out of the production because her availability changed.
