"Infliction" is the actual assembled footage taken from the cameras belonging to two brothers, who documented a murder spree in North Carolina.
Direction
Smith commits to the found-footage bit with almost annoying dedication.
Acting
Mac and Armstrong sell brotherly dysfunction that curdles into something worse.
Director
Jack Thomas Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jack Thomas Smith marketed this as 'actual recovered footage' in early press, because 2014 found footage needed more ethical confusion.
This arrived right as true-crime podcasts exploded, weaponizing our collective guilt about consuming real suffering as entertainment.
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