BODYCAM (2025)

(director/writer: Brandon Christensen; cinematographer: Clayton Moore; editors: Rob Grant, Brandon Christensen; music: ; cast: Jaime M. Callica (Officer Jackson), Sean Rogerson (Officer Bryce), Catherine Haggquist (Ally Jackson), Angel Prater (Esposito); Runtime: 75; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Brandon Christensen, Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder; Shudder; 2026)

“A found-footage horror pic that blends the supernatural with a cop drama.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A found-footage horror pic that blends the supernatural with a cop drama. It’s directed and written by Brandon Christensen (“Z”/”Superhost”), using eerie images as jump scares.

The white police officer Bryce (Sean Rogerson) and his Black partner Jackson (Jaime M. Callica) are in a patrol car and get called at night to a domestic disturbance in a rough druggie neighborhood in an unnamed city. In the basement of the rundown home, the cops realize they have come across some weird and evil stuff that’s going down, as there’s a hole in the basement floor with the word RISE painted in blood on the wall. Also, the floors in the house are covered in blood. The cops separate and search the place on their own.

Bryce gets nervous when hearing noises and shoots someone inside the house, but fearing how this would look if it became public wants to cover-up the shooting. But Jackson wants to go by the book. It turns out the cops need help from a computer hacker, Espo (Angel Prater), who works underground, if they want to get out of there alive. 

Jackson’s mother, Ally (Catherine Haggquist), operates from her home an addict support group, and doesn’t like it that her son is a cop because they’re perceived in the ghetto as the enemy.

The B-film goes CGI in the third act and loses its sense of reality, and turns into a found-film story. We can observe only on the cop’s bodycam cameras that were left behind how they may have encountered a supernatural force.

REVIEWED ON 4/20/2026  GRADE: C+
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