A pretty atrocious horror movie that feels like an 80s TV movie except for the cell phones and the way-over-the-top-gore of the death scenes. A photographer inherits his grandfather’s large-formate camera, once used to obsessively take “death portraits”, posed post-mortem portraits of corpses. Some of the deaths are a little imaginative, I’ll give it that.
Particularly atrocious is the use of video effects to try to make action more “intense”… processing the video when actions happen. So “TV movie”.
How Ray Wise allowed himself to be involved with this, I can’t imagine. I think this might be the first bad movie I’ve ever seen him in, usually he’s a pretty good tipoff that something is at least a little entertaining. Maybe it’s that his top-billed role, as the grandfather in a few flashbacks, has almost no speaking lines, or that his sole bit of dialog with another character is a pretty fun piece of overacting in the movies final moments.