Two brothers calmly record their gruesome crimes in the buzzed-about horror document Infliction, arriving on DVD and VOD on July 1st from Virgil Films.
Writer-director Jack Thomas Smith put himself on the horror movie map in 2006 with the cult psychological thriller Disorder.
With Infliction, Smith assembled footage taken from the cameras used by two psychotic brothers, who documented a murder spree in North Carolina in 2011. Unlike its predecessors The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, which relied on sparse visual evidence of supernatural activity, Infliction reveals in shiver-inducing detail the brothers’ hideous actions and what led them to commit their crimes. It shows the effects of people’s actions (or inactions) and their effect on others’ lives, presenting in cold reality a hard look at the blurred line between society’s criminals and its victims.
The film screened at the 2013 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, where Smith won the award for Best Story in a Feature.
