Dark Distortion Review: Found Footage Fear for the Surveillance Age

A stolen camcorder becomes a doorway to possession, paranoia, and digital-age dread in Dark Distortion.

Breaking Glass Pictures Unleashes Found-Footage Nightmare Dark Distortion on VOD This March

Breaking Glass Pictures is diving headfirst into cursed media and digital-age dread with Dark Distortion, a visceral found-footage horror thriller arriving on VOD March 3, 2026.

Written and directed by Joseph Herrera (Under Control Productions), Dark Distortion blends found footage, crime thriller energy, and supernatural horror into a grim cautionary tale about voyeurism, influence, and the price of being watched.

The film follows a group of adult models chasing a quick score through petty theft—until they steal the wrong camcorder. What should have been nothing more than incriminating footage turns out to house something far more dangerous: the restless spirit of a murdered child. As the tape begins to reveal disturbing truths, reality fractures, pulling the group into a spiral of possession, violence, and moral collapse. There’s no turning back—and no escape from the camera’s gaze.

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Starring April Hartman, Ethan Vaughan, Jada Jay, Joe Walker, Miles Stoner, and Kionna Williams, Dark Distortion leans hard into cursed-media mythology while grounding its terror in modern anxieties. Comparisons to The Ring, V/H/S, and Archive 81 feel earned, but Herrera’s film carves its own lane by framing horror through social influence, digital obsession, and the illusion of control in an always-on world.

“I chose Breaking Glass Pictures to distribute my film because I felt truly seen—not just as a filmmaker, but as a person,” Herrera said in a statement. “I wasn’t just another title in a lineup. I’m excited to continue building this relationship and bringing Dark Distortion to audiences who are ready for something raw and fearless.”

Breaking Glass Pictures CEO Rich Wolff echoed that sentiment, calling the film “a uniquely modern horror—where attention, technology, and violence collide,” adding that Dark Distortion is “disturbing, relevant, and impossible to look away from.”

More than just another found-footage experiment, Dark Distortion asks a timely and unsettling question: when attention becomes currency, who survives—and who controls the narrative?

Dark Distortion hits VOD worldwide March 3, 2026.