Body Cam

Body Cam (2020) is an American supernatural thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Malik Vitthal and led by Mary J. Blige. Runtime: 96 minutes.

Officer Renée Lomito-Smith rolls up to a routine traffic stop and ends up staring at the aftermath of her partner's death — violent, wordless, wrong in every way. The footage from his body camera shows something her training has no category for. She begins investigating on her own, pulling at a thread that the department would rather leave alone. Nat Wolff and David Zayas play colleagues who grow less supportive the further she goes.

The film works a real tension into its genre frame: the police body camera, meant to guarantee accountability, becomes the only witness to something that accountability cannot touch. Vitthal uses the horror scaffolding to say something about systems that protect themselves and the people crushed underneath. Stream Body Cam online on iFILM.