PRISM OF DARKNESS
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The Evil Attachments of Melodie Brookman
Produced & Directed by Barry Conrad
Media contact: Barry Conrad · barry6351@gmail.com · 818-421-4989
THE FILM
Short synopsis
Since 2007, Melodie Brookman has reported a disturbing presence that follows her from one home to another. What began as disembodied voices while she worked for a psychic network in Simi Valley escalated, she says, into threats, unexplained bruising, unsettling apparitions, and repeated sexual assaults by an unseen force.
In 2020, documentary filmmaker and paranormal investigator Barry Conrad met Brookman during an investigation. After the two developed a relationship and she moved into his home, infrared cameras were installed to document the reported activity. One night, Conrad observed the bedcovers pulsing over Brookman as she slept—footage she associates with the assaults she describes.
Through actual footage, eyewitness interviews, and Brookman’s personal account, this feature-length documentary explores her prolonged ordeal and Conrad’s effort to understand the events surrounding her.
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Barry Conrad
Barry Conrad is a documentary filmmaker, author, and veteran television news cameraman originally from Hamilton, Ohio. He began his career in journalism before joining WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, later working at two major television news stations in Denver, including NBC affiliate KOA-TV.
Conrad has produced more than a dozen documentary films exploring UFO reports and paranormal experiences. His credits include Monsters of the UFO, Incident at Kelly, Legend of the Flatwoods Monster, Mothman, Man, Myth or Monster, and The Travis Walton Story in Their Own Words. His investigation and filming of the San Pedro Haunting also became the basis for his book and documentary, Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting. The documentary aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1997.
His latest feature documentary, Prism of Darkness: The Evil Attachments of Melodie Brookman, grew out of his introduction to Brookman in 2020 and subsequent firsthand documentation of unusual events surrounding her. Combining actual footage and eyewitness interviews, the film examines her reported experiences and Conrad’s efforts to document and understand them.
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Filmmaker Barry Conrad documenting the Brookman case in footage from Prism of Darkness.
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A highlighted bulge in the bedcovers over Melodie Brookman, shown in a freeze-frame from footage examined in Prism of Darkness.
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An unusual luminous form recorded outside Barry Conrad's Glendale residence in 2021, which he describes as a ghostly apparition.
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Melodie Brookman during an on-camera interview for Prism of Darkness.
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Melodie Brookman in distress, in a photograph featured in Prism of Darkness.
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Melodie Brookman silhouetted beside a fence as she looks into a local cemetery, in a scene from Prism of Darkness.
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Melodie Brookman following a night of what she describes as torment by an unseen presence.
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Bruising on Melodie Brookman's arm, which she attributes to an encounter with an unseen assailant.
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An unusual pink light form of unknown origin recorded on camera and featured in Prism of Darkness.
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Official poster for Prism of Darkness: The Evil Attachments of Melodie Brookman, produced and directed by Barry Conrad.
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A frame from infrared bedroom footage in Prism of Darkness, documenting a light form that Conrad describes as a ghostly presence moving across the room while Brookman sleeps.
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A highlighted area of the bedcovers in infrared footage recorded in February 2021 and examined in Prism of Darkness, from a sequence Brookman associates with her reports of assault by an unseen force.
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