Freeze Frame Trailer (2004)

Trailer for Freeze Frame.

Utterly traumatized by his arrest and near-conviction for a series of brutal murders, thirty-three year old Sean Veil has become a true paranoid.Convinced that figures led by a criminal profiler are determined to set him up, he has spent the ten years since his acquittal video-taping his every waking and sleeping moment as insurance against the day when they confront him with another crime, asking for an alibi.Despite all his precautions against the forces out to destroy him, the police eventually do come calling, and the one tape that could prove his innocence of a new murder has mysteriously disappeared…

This jarring, paranoia-inflected tale offers a gruesome meditation on the harrowing life of a murder suspect. Sean Veil's (Lee Evans) tenuous hold on reality is let slip when he becomes obsessed with documenting his life. A loner who would be hard pressed to provide an alibi for any task he carried out, Veil straps cameras all around his person in order to provide any evidence the police may need regarding his activities. As the police hunt hots up, and the finger of fate seems to indicate that Veil is the strongest suspect in the case, he slips further into insanity. The situation gets markedly worse when one of his fastidiously cataloged video tapes appears to go missing. Director John Simpson pulls a thoroughly convincing performance from Evans in this harrowing portrait of a life slowly slipping off the rails, creating a pulse-pounding finale to Freeze Frame that is also a damning indictment of the way technology is consuming humankind.