It stars Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Noah Segan, Catherine Curtin, Chase Williamson, and Andrew Sensenig.

Aaron B. Koontz was inspired to write Camera Obscura after one of his co-workers had visited South America and the locals did not allow him to take pictures as "it would steal their souls".

Impressed with their performances in Lovely Molly and John Dies at the End respectively, the director met with and cast Gretchen Lodge and Chase Williamson in 2013.

[14] Dennis Harvey of Variety said the film was "definitely a cut above in genre terms, with room for some nicely drawn character writing and acting", singling out the performance of Curtin and Segan in particular.

"[16] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Scheck wrote "despite Denham’s impressively committed performance in the central role, Camera Obscura never achieves the proper focus.