Breaking Glass Pictures is thrilled to announce the March 3 release of Dark Distortion, the feature directorial debut from filmmaker Joseph Herrera.
Herrera — recently interviewed in Q Magazine — delivers a provocative, thriller that fuses supernatural terror with a penetrating critique of social media obsession, adult content culture, and the perilous cost of visibility in the digital age.
In Dark Distortion, a clique of adult models and influencers steal a camcorder haunted by the spirit of a murdered child — an act that turns their carefully curated lives into a chilling supernatural nightmare. The result is a film that feels both nostalgically eerie and urgently contemporary, taking cues from genre touchstones like Scream, Halloween, Candyman, and The Changeling.
In Herrera’s in-depth interview with Q Magazine, he reflects on how his personal experiences shaped the film’s themes:
“As a gay man, I’ve seen how visibility can be empowering, but also performative. There’s pressure to curate yourself. The film explores what happens when that performance starts consuming you.”
He also discusses the idea behind the film’s haunted camcorder — a literal ghost story about the permanence of recorded media in an age where “content is forever.”
“Horror works best when it operates on multiple levels… we archive trauma without meaning to.”
With Dark Distortion, Herrera confronts a culture addicted to being seen and asks a chilling question: when everything is captured on camera forever, is fame ever worth the price?
🔗 Read Joseph Herrera’s full interview on Q Magazine here:
https://qmagazine.media/culture/calling-the-shots/
Dark Distortion arrives March 3