Review #159: Cam (2018)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #14 - Cam (2018) I'll start this review off by saying that I think there's a lot of potential in a horror story about a cam girl, or any kind of person in the sex industry. And this movie plays with a lot of that potential- having a follower show up in your hometown to stalk you, having your family discover what you do for a living before you're ready to tell them, having your persona stolen and nobody seems to understand or care- heck, even just a movie where your cam girl account gets hacked and you have to deal with the least-helpful customer service representative in the world is a legitimately horrific premise for a story. But for all of the dangers lurking around the corner for someone in the sex industry, "having an AI (or possibly ghost?) do your job for you" seems kind of far down the list. The premise of this movie is as follows: Madeline Brewer plays Alice, a cam ...