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| Title: | Cam |
| Directed by: | Daniel Goldhaber |
| Written by: | Isa Mazzei; Daniel Goldhaber; Isabelle Link-Levy |
| Produced by: | Couper Samuelson; Beatriz Sequeira; Michael Joe; Floris Bauer; Isa Mazzei; Daniel Garber; Greg Gilreath; Adam Hendricks; John H. Lang; Isabelle Link-Levy |
| Music by: | Gavin Brivik |
| Cinematography: | Katelin Arizmendi |
| Edited by: | Daniel Garber |
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| Distributors: | Blumhouse Productions Divide/Conquer Gunpowder & Sky |
| Released: | July 18th, 2018 |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Running time: | 94 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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Cam is an American feature film of the supernatural thriller subgenre of drama and horror. It was directed by Daniel Goldhaber with a script written by Isa Mazzei based on a story treatment by Mazzei, Goldwater, and Isabelle Link-Levy. It was produced by Divide/Conquer, Gunpowder & Sky and Blumhouse Productions. It premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada on July 18th, 2018. The film stars Madeline Brewer as Alice Ackerman - a camgirl who is obsessed with becoming number one in her chosen field. Life is good at first until her family comes to learn what she does for a living. This is par for the course however, as the real tension heats up when an unexplained doppelgänger named "Lola" steals her online identity and Alice's life becomes both a living and virtual Hell.
Plot[]
Alice Ackerman is a successful cam girl who goes by the screen name of Lola-Lola. Her guiding obsession is to make it into the Top 50 list of most-viewed cam girl feeds on the Free Girls Live (FGL) hosting service. As she continues to ply her trade however, Alice must also balance real life factors, which includes moving into a new house, determining whether or not to tell her mother what she does for a living, and preparing for her 17-year-old brother's birthday. To complicate Alice's life even further, she discovers that someone has appropriated her online identity, and is presenting themselves as her on live-feeds. Alice's efforts to route out this perplexing doppelganger sabotages her livelihood and even meeting up with actual fans of her feed, only yields greater questions. Ultimately, Alice decides to have an online showdown with her impersonator in the hopes that her fanbase will be able to determine who is the true "Lola-Lola", and who is the imposter.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
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| Madeline Brewer | Alice Ackerman/"Lola-Lola" |
| Patch Darragh | Tinker |
| Melora Walters | Lynne |
| Devin Druid | Jordan |
| Imani Hakim | Baby |
| Michael Dempsey | Barney |
| Flora Diaz | Fox |
| Samantha Robinson | PrincessX |
| Jessica Parker Kennedy | Katie |
| Quei Tann | LuckyDuck |
| Linda Griffin | Jen |
| Clint Jung | Officer Lee |
| Carl Donelson | Officer Reynolds |
| Brayden Skoglund | Sean |
| Elijah Stevenson | Peter |
| Paris Peterson | Justin |
| Emily Berry | Maid |
| Isa Mazzei | Checkout girl |
| Longmont Potion Castle | Operator |
| Lina Carter | SarahBear |
| Zainne Saleh | HelenofBoy |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Screenwriter Isa Mazzei based the events of the film on her own experiences working as a camgirl. Like the fictional Alice Ackerman, Isa also had to struggle with having her identity stolen, albeit not from a paranormal doppelgänger.
- Originally, Isa Mazzei conceived Cam as a documentary about this particular side of the sex industry, but later felt that it would be better served as a horror movie.
- There are a total of twenty-one credited cast members in this film.
- Following its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, Cam was screened in the United States at Fantastic Fest on September 21st, 2018. It premiered in the U.K. on October 20th, 2018 at the London Film Fetival in London, England. It was screened at the AFI Fest in the United States on November 10th, 2018.
- Following its festival release, Netflix acquired the distribution rights to the film and it premiered on their streaming service on November 16th, 2018.
- On the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Cam holds a 93% Fresh Tomatometer rating based on ninety-nine counted reviews. It averaged 7.20 out of 10 with 92 positive reviews and 7 negative reviews. It has an audience score of 53% based on 1,285 user ratings.
- Screenwriter Isa Mazzei makes a cameo appearance in the film as a checkout girl.
- The true nature of the doppelgänger is never revealed. One theory is that it is an actually an algorithm that evolved into an artificial intelligence by data-mining hours of Alice's online video footage.
- Daniel Goldhaber won the New Flesh award for the category of Best Feature film at the Fantasia Internaional Film Festival for Cam on July 24th, 2018.
- Isa Mazzei won the Cheval Noir award for the category of Best Screenplay for Cam at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
- Actress Madeline Brewer was the recipient of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival award for the category of Best Actress - Head Trip Competition on October 23rd, 2018.
- Actress Madeline Brewer is also known for playing Miranda Cates in season two of the Netflix series Hemlock Grove.
- Actress Jessica Parker Kennedy is also known for playing the role of teen-witch Melissa Glaser on the CW Network television series The Secret Circle.
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