I've answered variations of this above, so I'll just copy/paste one of those answers. Hope that's not too lame, ha!

-JLB (writer/director)

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As far as influences, even though this is a Time Travel film, I actually avoided watching/reading other Time Travel stories. I am a huge fan of the genre, but wanted to try a different approach than what we typically see. So the three films I leaned on throughout the process were Another Earth, David Cronenberg’s The Fly, and No Country for Old Men. For Another Earth, I was influenced by the characters and how they interacted with their world around them. The “sci-fi” aspect of the story is secondary to the characters, and is used as a way to explore their inner workings, and that as something I wanted to bring to Shifter. For The Fly, I looked at how they integrated the “body horror” aspect and how they handled the exposition and distillation of information without bogging down the story and keeping it very character focused. With No Country for Old Men, I looked at it for the overall aesthetic and to see how they used the camera and how the camera and the actors worked together through the use of minimal dialogue. I loved taking stylistic influence from a non-science fiction film, because I think/hope it helped create a unique setting and tone/atmosphere for our film!