James Cullen Bressack is going low-fi for his upcoming horror feature. The filmmaker will shoot I Have Proof entirely on VHS-C, a move to match the back-to-basics approach of the script he wrote.
Plot details are being kept locked in an old VCR, but the film is said to be psychologically charged, and favor “texture, imperfection, and immediacy over polish” according to Bressack, as it explores a deteriorating sense of reality.
To find enough VHS cassettes to shoot on, he purchased around 30 tapes from Ebay, buying people’s old home movies to record over.
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I Have Proof marks his return to the horror genre after a decade away spent helming action films, such as the Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Darkness of Man, as well as features starring Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson. Before that, Bressack was a fixture of
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