Camera Obscura is the creepy new 17-episode web-series from demented indie-horror award-winner Drew Daywalt and MWG Entertainment. The project is intended to appeal to women, but promises plenty of amazing creature F/X, courtesy of Jeff Farley, to make the hairs on any guy’s testes stand.

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In an interview with the folks at Fearnet, Daywalt describes the premise:

It’s about a young woman who is cleaning out her grandfather’s office after he passes away. She finds a book, and in the book are these weird photographs. She had a very unhealthy relationship with her grandfather, he raised her, but he was a crime scene photographer for the LAPD and he drank a lot so he was never around, so there’s a lot of resentment in her cleaning up after he’s deceased.

And when she [finds] this book, it’s nothing like him; it’s nothing like what he did in his life. It’s strange art photography. It’s dark, weird, photographs and they’re actually upsetting [to her]. She throws the book in the fireplace and she burns it because it’s just too upsetting and weird.

Then she finds his camera and she can’t get it to work. She [learns] this camera was a magic camera that was able to capture demons, and in photographing them with this camera, imprisoning them in this book, which she then realized she burned. Los Angeles is [now] hit with a rash of strange, ritualistic crime homicides, and she realizes quickly that she burned the book and she released them. She comes to know that each of these demons – six of them – had a crime profile like a serial killer would.

Camera Obscura stars Reagan Dale Neis, Jack Klugman (I thought he was dead!), Timm Sharp, Donnie Jeffcoat, Fiona Goodwin, Edin Gali, Paul Hungerford, Azure Parsons, and Charlotte Bjornbak.

To freak yourself out further, take a look at Daywalt’s Bedfellows short here.