In June 2007, the Bad Voodoo Platoon deployed to Iraq during the American military surge. To capture an intimate, vivid account of the new realities of war, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created a "virtual embed" with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so she could better crawl inside the experience of "boots on the ground." Bad Voodoo's War is the story of of the daily grind, the brotherhood, the fear and fatigue of war, through the eyes of the soldiers.