Camera Roll, an upcoming found-footage horror-thriller, presents itself as declassified surveillance footage, recovered from a stalking victim’s personal camera and released under the Freedom of Information Act, in which entire sections of the recording have been blacked out, redacted like an official government document.
As the footage plays out in real time, a disturbing pattern emerges: the redactions consistently occur the moment a second, unidentified presence enters the frame. What begins as an ordinary record of daily life slowly reveals itself to be something else entirely, proof that someone was watching long before anyone realized it. By the film’s end, the case remains open. No one was ever charged.
Written and directed by Samuel Felinton, Camera Roll was shot entirely in West Virginia, and features an emerging cast and crew of local and student filmmakers. Camera Roll draws on the visual language of declassified case files, the same black-box redactions familiar from real government document releases, to build a slow-burn sense of dread rooted in what the audience is not allowed to see.
