This authentic and empathetic look at sex work set against a backdrop of a horror film works a lot better than you'd expect thanks to Brewer's committed performance and Mazzei's impressive screenplay.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2025

It relies on the main character’s confusion and anxieties surrounding her situation in order to build suspense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The psychological thriller Cam...turns sex work stereotypes on their heads to tell a chilling story of power and agency.

| Feb 13, 2022

Cam avoids the obvious pitfalls of a genre known for punishing sex.

| Oct 22, 2021

It's not a stretch to say that this unique and colorful techno-horror work of art is a perfect example of how queerness exists within genre cinema, both explicitly and subtly.

| Sep 17, 2021

A sex-positive existential 21st century twist on Hitchcock's favorite story of Mistaken Identity

| Jul 6, 2021

A hundred and thirty-four minute roller coaster.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2020

What appears as a glossy social commentary, CAM develops into a multilayered techno-thriller that exposes the horrors of the online arena, as well as the experience of sex workers.

| Oct 19, 2020

The openness of what is happening is something that makes the film and its ending much more interesting than if it has been what one may think it is at first. There is more than meets the eye here and it will make some want to watch Cam more than once.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 11, 2020

There's ripe artistic possibility in exploring the interplay between projection and identity within these spaces... The new horror film Cam understands this potential, and wrings both scares and some visual ingenuity out of it.

| Feb 18, 2020

Cam never figures out how to be both sexploitation and something else entirely.

| Sep 18, 2019

The movie's nightmarish quest for Alice to assert and establish her true identity is the stuff of all our darknesses, but the digital design and the focus on alluring sex workers gives it an odd, unique spin.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2019

All in all, I found CAM to be a tightly wound thriller that kept me guessing throughout its entire runtime.

| Jun 14, 2019

The script has a lot to say about the fear of being alone, the act of voyeurism, and the loss of identity, but it also works as a twisty mind-bender of a thriller -- thanks in large part to the stellar performance(s) by Madeline Brewer.

| Jun 14, 2019

A compelling update of a B-movie storyline featuring a strong lead performance that fails to stick the landing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2019

Blurs the line between sex-positive self-fulfillment and a sacrifice on the altar of male fantasy, a coy maneuver that threatens to derail an otherwise effective piece of paranoiac horror.

| May 18, 2019

Cam is a cautionary tale about the postmodern digital landscape where bodies are commodities for sale at the click of a mouse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2019

There's more than a little David Lynch influence at play here, but Goldhaber handles the material expertly, as evidenced by his award for Best First Feature at Fantasia 2018 (not to be outdone, Isa Mazzei's screenplay also received honors).

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 9, 2019

Both Mazzei and Brewer are at their best, and Cam at its most unsettling, when they explore how an economy of loneliness fuels the frightening appearance of an online double that threatens Alice's life and livelihood.

| Apr 1, 2019

Cam offers few answers as to the nature of the film's malevolence but it does an excellent job of demonstrating the stigmas that sex workers face even in the digital world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2019