Horror Movie Review: Bodycam (2026)

Written by Brandon Christensen and Ryan Christensen, with the former also directing, Bodycam is a ‘found footage’ horror film with promise. Promise that it fails to live up to, somehow overstaying its welcome at 75 minutes.

Jaime M. Callica plays Jackson and Sean Rogerson plays Bryce, two police officers out on patrol who go to investigate a domestic dispute in a rough part of town. It’s all pretty routine stuff for the cops, until they arrive at the house, and a series of events occur that result in an accidental shooting.

It’s the kind of situation that every police officer dreads, no doubt, and in a moment of madness, they decide to cover it up. Bryce, who had pulled the trigger, is desperate, believing that it will be the end of him and Jackson, who is initially resistant to the idea of covering it up, reluctantly agrees.

All they need to do now is get rid of the evidence, which includes wiping the footage from their body cameras. Except something else was watching and it’s not going to be as simple to hide what they did now.

Bodycam is a supernatural found footage horror that sells itself on the promise of something different but ends up being nothing more than another unremarkable entry in a tired subgenre. Replacing an intriguing mystery that gets the imagination racing with convoluted plot developments, bad CGI, and an ending that is exceptionally overdone. Resulting in a frustrating watch that diminishes the goodwill earned by some of the film’s positives. Which it does have.

Positives like the initial setup and how carefully it builds tension. Positives like the acting, the attempt to give the main characters a bit more depth beyond just being police officers, and positives like a well-crafted ‘trapped’ sequence involving a house. When Bodycam is good, it’s pretty good. It’s just a shame, most of the time it’s not.

What I don’t understand is why the story gets so complicated? Two police officers intervene in a demonic ritual which results in someone being killed. *insert demon* now wants revenge and sets about tormenting the culprits who are desperately trying to cover their tracks. That’s all this film needed to be, yet it attempts to go bigger and wider, and the result is confusing and half-baked. A lot of latter point plot developments also feel rushed, which is quite something as the latter part of the film also manages to feel dragged out. Now that is impressive.

Can you see why it’s such a frustrating watch? Now throw in the complete abandonment of the body camera angle, turning the film into just another found footage film.