Books and Films That Are Similar to My Own Memoir

When people ask what genre my memoir belongs to, I often hesitate—not because the answer is unclear, but because it sits at the crossroads of horror, legal drama, cyber-thriller, and personal testimony.

My story does not fit neatly into one category because my life, for years, has been pushed into territories that feel both unreal and yet painfully real. To help others understand what the emotional and atmospheric world of my memoir looks like, I often describe it through the works that echo closest to my experience.

These are the stories whose tones, structures, and themes mirror the world I’ve been forced to navigate.


1. Dracula – A Gothic Frame Narrative of Entrapment

In Stoker’s Dracula, the Count is built from the language of otherness. His foreign appearance, unfamiliar customs, and unsettling manners are framed as something fundamentally alien to the British characters around him, marking him as something the British characters cannot understand and therefore cannot trust.

Stoker therefore turns this difference into a form of monstrosity, inviting the reader to associate the foreign with the danger and the fear of strangers. 

Dracula becomes the marked term—an embodiment of the outsider, the unknown, the untrustworthy.

Harker and Mina, in contrast, move through the narrative with the ease of those who belong. They represent the unmarked world—the safe, familiar heart of the British Empire. Their identity is the default, the standard from which Dracula deviates.

This dynamic is central to the novel’s power: a clash between a stable imperial identity and a foreign threat cast as monstrous simply for being different.

It is told through diary entries, letters, telegrams, and newspaper clippings—a fragmented narrative that slowly reveals a deeper horror.

My memoir shares this structure.

Much like Jonathan Harker, who finds himself trapped inside Dracula’s castle—watched, monitored, studied—I too found myself in environments I could not escape. Every new home, hostel room, or temporary refuge felt like a cage of its own. I moved from place to place only to discover new forms of monitoring, new intrusions, new violations.

The Gothic dread in Dracula is not its monsters—it’s the feeling of being observed without knowing from where.

My memoir captures that same psychological imprisonment.


2. The Firm – A Legal Thriller Built on Surveillance & High Stakes

John Grisham’s The Firm has long been considered a classic legal thriller. Tom Cruise’s character in the movie of the same name discovers that his life—his home, his conversations, his marriage—has been infiltrated by hidden devices placed by powerful actors.

Every conversation, every room, every intimate moment is being recorded by hidden devices! 

The parallel is unmistakable.

My memoir also unfolds as a legal thriller—not fiction, but a real struggle against organisations and individuals with far greater power, resources, and reach. Surveillance, secrecy, intimidation, and manipulation form the backdrop of both stories.

The Firm uses bugs and cameras as tools of control. The same with my memoir, which examines how these same tools can be weaponised across borders, technologies, and institutions to assert control over me no matter where I go or live! 


3. Erin Brockovich – Taking on Large Powers Without Legal Training

One of the strongest emotional parallels comes from Erin Brockovich. Erin—without formal legal training, without privilege, without institutional backing—stood up to a massive corporation because she knew something was wrong.

That determination, that refusal to be silenced, mirrors my own journey.

My memoir is written from the perspective of someone who has had to learn the law on the fly—someone who is fighting entities far larger and more powerful than herself, not out of choice, but out of necessity.

It is a legal battle intertwined with survival.


4. The Great Hack – Data, Power, and Privacy Gone Wrong

The documentary The Great Hack explores how personal information can be collected, weaponised, and used to manipulate people on a mass scale.

My experience echoes this theme in an intensely personal way.

My memoir examines what happens when private data, digital tracking, and modern technology collide with malice—and how that collision can devastate a single individual’s life. It is a story of cybersecurity breaches, data breach, misuse of private information, digital exploitation, and the struggle to reclaim ownership of one’s identity in a world where data is power.

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Article Talk. In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising without informed consent.

During his testimony before Congress on April 10, 2018, Zuckerberg said it was his personal mistake that he did not do enough to prevent Facebook from being used for harm. “That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech”. During the testimony, Mark Zuckerberg publicly apologized for the breach of private data: “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here”.

But many of the senators weren’t buying the 33-year-old billionaire’s apology.

“We’ve seen the apology tours before,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut.

“After more than a decade of promises to do better, how is today’s apology different?” said Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/watch-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-senate-judiciary-commerce-committee-facebook-data-breach-today-live/


5. The Matrix – Hacking, Digital Control, and the Blurred Lines of Reality

Finally, The Matrix offers a different kind of influence—not in genre, but in symbolism.

My memoir examines cyberstalking, hacking, digital coercion, and the blurring of boundaries between the online world and the physical one.

Like The Matrix, it is about a fight for truth in an environment built to obscure it.


Bringing It All Together

My memoir is a hybrid:

  • Gothic horror’s atmosphere of entrapment and Otherness 
  • Legal thriller stakes and investigation
  • Grassroots legal advocacy against impossible odds
  • Cybersecurity, data exploitation, and digital warfare
  • The psychological complexity of living inside surveillance

It is not fiction. But these works help shape the tone, structure, and emotional gravity of the story I am finally ready to tell.

You can read the first chapter ‘Before The Storm‘ of my soon to be released book ‘The Web of Predators‘ on Wattpad here.

The Web of Predators
You can pre-order my upcoming book on Amazon here.

Deliberate Noise Harassment

On numerous occasions, particularly when I am using the bathroom or have just completed a private activity such as washing dishes or cooking, individuals associated with the perpetrators (including housemates influenced by them) have deliberately opened and slammed the doors shut. This occurs almost every time I am in the bathroom, creating a loud and jarring noise designed to be heard by me. The consistent timing of these incidents, coinciding precisely with my private moments, is not coincidental but a calculated method to signal constant surveillance and to cause psychological distress. I am being conditioned to understand this as a direct message that my movements are being monitored.

Targeted Conversational Harassment: 

Concurrently, and often immediately upon me entering the bathroom, individuals are strategically positioned outside my window. These individuals, including those dispatched specifically for this purpose, engage in loud conversations designed to be clearly audible to me while I am in the bathroom. This occurs at various times, including late at night, even at 2:00 AM in the morning, and is a deliberate tactic to invade my privacy, disrupt my peace, and reinforce the pervasive feeling of being watched and targeted. The immediate deployment of these individuals upon my entry into the bathroom further underscores the intentional and coordinated nature of this harassment.

These new tactics are profoundly distressing and constitute a form of psychological torture, designed to erode my sense of privacy and security within my own home. They are a direct continuation of the long-standing pattern of illegal surveillance, cyberstalking, and intimidation previously detailed in my blog.

The pattern of harassment described above has continued and intensified. Specifically, on the evening of 20 October 2025, I documented a new and particularly distressing harassment technique involving individuals being dispatched to walk past my window, engaging in loud conversations designed to be clearly audible during private moments, particularly when I am using the bathroom.

Crucially, within hours of documenting this specific harassment technique, at approximately 4:00 AM on 21 October 2025, I experienced this exact same tactic. Immediately upon entering the bathroom and sitting down to pee, I heard individuals begin to converse loudly while walking past the window. This incident occurred precisely as described in my documentation from the previous evening. The immediate and precise replication of the documented harassment technique, occurring within hours of its detailed description by me, provides compelling evidence of:

  1. Ongoing and direct surveillance of my activities, including my private documentation. This suggests that the perpetrators are constantly monitoring my online or digital communications, or have access to my private documents, and are using this information to tailor their harassment.
  2. Deliberate and targeted psychological harassment. The timing and nature of this incident, directly mirroring my documented distress, is a clear attempt to cause further psychological harm, demonstrate control, and signal constant surveillance.
  3. Retaliation for documenting the harassment. The immediate deployment of the exact technique after it was documented indicates a retaliatory motive, aiming to intimidate me from further recording or reporting incidents.
  4. The inadequacy of existing protections and the urgent need for court intervention. This incident demonstrates that the abusers are undeterred by my efforts to document and seek legal recourse, and are actively escalating their tactics.

Again today on 27 October 2025 at 5:29 am, immediately after I sat down to pee in the bathroom, I received 3 push notifications on my phone, notifying me that I had just received 3 emails about new job listings from a company where I have signed up to receive notifications of job opportunities. It’s like this almost every day when I use the bathroom, I would receive emails, phone calls, or hear housemates slam the door shut to exit / return to the premises, for instance, to let me know I am being constantly watched via hidden cameras.

Also, EVERY NIGHT, immediately upon getting up and opening the bathroom door to use the bathroom, I will hear a car or two driving past my window. Prior to this, there’s no sound or anything. It’s all quiet. But at that precise moment I get up and enter the bathroom, I will immediately hear cars begin to drive past my window.

Everything is being done to precision, suggesting that they are constantly monitoring me every second, 24/7! Even the slightest movements of mine are being observed and conveyed back to me that they’re watching me. This is very disturbing!

It looks therefore like this is not just voyeurism but also illegal human experimentation when they appear to monitor me at all times down to every tiniest movement I make. Especially when it’s been going on for probably more than a decade, making it highly likely that they may conduct illegal research on me as well.

Harassment
The 2 women who walked past my window and began to converse loudly at the precise moment I put the toilet paper down!

Later today, at approximately 11:22 AM, after using the bathroom, I reached for toilet paper. Then, immediately after putting the toilet paper down, I heard some individuals begin to converse loudly outside while walking past my window. It’s like this every day. I then immediately ran out of the bathroom to take pictures of them as proof. I then observed two women walking past my window while talking. 

The woman on the right also wore an army green jacket. One of the colours frequently used in the harassment campaign against me to condition me to how colours, people suddenly begin to converse while walking past my window, cars immediately drive past my window, car horns, or door being slammed shut while I am using the bathroom or just finish doing something such as putting the toilet paper down or finishing cooking, are repeatedly used as their intentional signals to let me know that I am being constantly watched. 

Covert Surveillance
The 2 housemates who suddenly exited the premises and slammed the door shut at the exact moment I got up after finishing eating.

Again, at approximately 9:39 pm, immediately upon standing up after finishing my dinner, I heard the housemates open the main door and exit the premises. I immediately ran to the window to take pictures of them as proof of harassment by acting as messengers to convey to me that I am being constantly watched via the hidden cameras. They may do it wittingly or unwittingly.

It’s intentional harassment and psychological torture by conditioning me to certain external sounds that occur at the precise moment I start / finish doing something such as start cooking, finish eating to communicate constant surveillance. 

Many of these housemates / neighbours may not realise that their actions could have serious legal consequences. If they have been following instructions from others to harass or intimidate me, they could be subjected to a Norwich Pharmacal Order or even a witness summons, compelling them to disclose who directed or influenced their conduct. In other words, those who think they are just “following orders” may one day be required to reveal the true wrongdoers under oath.

Hate Has No Place In This World

It has often left me speechless how, even after I’ve written openly about the years of harassment and exploitation that my daughter and I have endured, there are still people who choose to join in the abuse, harassment, bullying, stalking, etc. I have described in painful detail what it feels like to be watched, mocked, sexually humiliated, and manipulated — and yet, instead of empathy, some respond with more cruelty by continuing to harass me more. But remember, hate has no place in this world. 

When people read about someone’s suffering, there are usually two paths they can take: compassion or complicity. Compassion means recognising the humanity of another person and standing against injustice. Complicity means either silently approving or actively taking part in harm. What I see happening around me suggests that many have chosen the latter.

It’s difficult to understand what drives this. Perhaps some have been deliberately misled — fed misinformation by those who wish to cover up their wrongdoing. Perhaps they’ve been told lies about who I am, what I’ve done, or why this is happening, so they feel justified in their cruelty. Or perhaps, for others, the power to join in the humiliation of another person is itself an intoxicating form of control or pure entertainment seeing another human being suffering. 

But regardless of motive, the result is the same: the perpetuation of abuse. Every act of mockery, every knowing smirk, every participation in the coordinated harassment keeps the cycle of violence alive. It is not merely “following instructions” or “going along with it.” It is a moral choice — and each person who participates in becomes part of the harm.

What makes this especially alarming is that many of these individuals cannot claim ignorance. They have read my words. They know the toll this has taken on me and my daughter — emotionally, psychologically, and even physically. They know about the sleepless nights, the fear, the humiliation, the destruction of privacy, and the blocking of my access to lawyers. And yet, even with that knowledge, they continue.

When someone can look at suffering, fully informed, and still decide to contribute to it, that reveals something dark about human nature. It exposes how easily prejudice, misinformation, or simple indifference can override empathy. It shows how a society can be conditioned to dehumanise a person — to treat someone’s pain as entertainment or as a tool for manipulation. If this is the case, what’s wrong with the world today?

There’s also another layer to this: bias. Some people are quick to dismiss my experiences because of who I am — a woman of colour, an outsider, a person without institutional power. They assume that if powerful organisations or individuals are involved, then the victim must be exaggerating. This reflexive bias allows abusers to continue unchallenged, hiding behind their reputations and resources.

To those who have read my blog and still choose to side with cruelty, ask yourself this: If something like this happens to you or your loved ones, what would you do? Do you have a daughter, and what would you feel if they’re doing this to your daughter as well? 

If you have involved yourself in this harassment in any way — through mockery, gossip, or passive observation — you still have a choice. You can refuse to participate further. You can choose empathy over exploitation and abuse.  

I am shocked that no one says, “I don’t want to be a part of this. This is just so wrong.”

And to those who still have the courage to see beyond the lies and manipulation — who recognise the human cost of what is being done — your understanding matters more than you know.

I continue to write because silence would mean acceptance. And I will not accept being silenced, erased, or dehumanised by those who profit from cruelty or those who enable it.

Because hate has no place in this world.

Therefore, I am taking important steps to hold those responsible accountable. The harassment, exploitation, deception and unlawful use of private information will not go unchallenged. I will be pursuing formal legal action against the perpetrators and all entities involved, to ensure that justice is served and that the full scope of wrongdoing is exposed.

Buppha Witt

Illegal Surveillance Timeline

Below is a timeline of how it all began:

1. Early 2023
I submitted some formal complaints concerning the conduct of certain individuals working across different public bodies.

2. August 2023
My daughter and her long-term partner of twelve years unexpectedly separated.

3. September 2023
She began a new relationship with a Spanish man she met online. Who is 10 years younger than her and who works as a streamer. Despite their relationship lasting around two years, he has never visited her home. It’s always her who goes visit him in Spain or they meet elsewhere to go on holidays together, which raises concerns that her home environment might not be safe or private.

4. Autumn 2023
Shortly after this new relationship began, I started noticing films, commercials, and online content that appeared to reference or echo my daughter’s personal life — including details that seemed drawn from sensitive or private information. This mirrored the way my own private materials and experiences have been repeatedly misused and echoed in media content.

5. October 2023
I began to suspect that my own personal and sensitive information may have been illegally shared with third parties without my knowledge or consent.

6. Summer 2024
On my previous blog, http://www.buppha.com, I began writing about organised harassment, illegal surveillance, voyeurism, and tech abuse — unaware that I was myself a victim of the very illegal acts I was describing. Soon after, the harassment and excessive surveillance campaign against me started!

7. Late 2024
I began to realise that my private activities at home may have been secretly filmed and distributed for years — likely for over a decade — without my consent.

8. Early 2025
After I attempted to stop the abuse lawfully by sending Pre-Action Protocol Letters, the illegal surveillance and harassment campaign against me intensified dramatically.

9. Spring & Summer 2025
My access to legal representation also appears to have been blocked. Consequently, I had no choice but to try to apply for an urgent injunction myself. I then made several attempts to apply for an urgent injunction through the King’s Bench Division, but each time my evidence and documents mysteriously disappeared after submission?!

How Hacker Has Hindered Me From Pursuing My Careers As A Writer and Filmmaker

Being a writer and filmmaker should mean freedom — the freedom to imagine, to create, and to express yourself. But for me, that freedom has been slowly eroded by relentless hacking and cyberstalking that have invaded every corner of my creative life.
For years, my private writing — screenplays, journal notes, personal reflections, and creative concepts — has not been safe. Whatever I write and store on my devices seems to be monitored, copied, and stolen, only to reappear in distorted or reworked forms elsewhere. Sometimes this material is clearly used to mock or harass me, echoing my own words and experiences in ways that are deeply personal and distressing.

For years, my private writing — screenplays, journal notes, personal reflections, and creative concepts — has not been safe. Whatever I write and store on my devices seems to be monitored, copied, and stolen, only to reappear in distorted or reworked forms elsewhere. Sometimes this material is clearly used to mock or harass me, echoing my own words and experiences in ways that are deeply personal and distressing.

But it doesn’t stop there. What is even more alarming is the commercial exploitation of my stolen creative work. Ideas, plots, and scenes from my writing appear to have been leaked to third parties and later used in professionally produced content — including films and media projects — without my knowledge or consent.

It feels as if my intellectual property and even fragments of my private life have been mined and repackaged for others’ profit.

This is more than a privacy violation; it’s the systematic theft of my identity as an artist. It has made it nearly impossible to pursue my career safely. Every time I begin a new project, I am haunted by the fear that it will once again be intercepted, stolen, and used against me — either to ridicule or to enrich others.

The psychological toll is immense. Writing, which once brought me happiness and purpose, now brings anxiety and mistrust. Still, I continue to fight — not just for my work, but for the principle that creative ownership and privacy are fundamental human rights. No artist should have to live in fear that their imagination will be stolen, their privacy violated, or their life turned into someone else’s story.

It’s truly devastating that I can no longer pursue my dream careers as a writer, filmmaker and actress for now. That’s why you don’t see me doing much for the moment. I was used to actively working on my screenplays, attending networking, making short films, etc. Now I have to stop doing everything and can no longer afford to pay for my webhosting http://www.buppha.com since I have no job at the moment due to possible blacklisting. I just still can’t believe that this is actually happening to me and, perhaps, my daughter as well.

They are sending a clear signal that they will continue to invade every area of my life regardless and despite pending legal actions.