Cam-Girl (2016) User Reviews

Hanging on by a thread ...

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 4 August 2022]

Or is it threat? Which I reckon would drive home the pun even better (so no pun intended?). The story or rather the premise itself is quite good. But it does not work overall because of its execution (another pun you ask?).

I was actually looking for another Cam Girl movie and found this and something other too. So I gave this a watch too, because ... why not? And also I am crazy, right? Well - I said it so it's ok ... talking of saying, the dialog is also ok ... but also ... well it could be delivered way better ... and it could have been way tighter ... and a few other things that would have worked ... under different circumstances.

Cam-Girl sounds like it's going to be a sexploitation film

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 16 July 2018]

Instead, it's a low budget thriller where one actress has to carry 99% of the running time by talking on the telephone. How does that work out?

Gessica (Erin Cline) lives two lives. By day, she's a student struggling to pay her mortgage and keep up with raising a baby. And by night, she indulges men's fantasies by dressing up and appearing on the internet. Where this film appears like it's just going to be a Cinemax After Dark affair, it takes a turn into psychological territory when Gessica becomes the target of the Box Cutter Killer.

The Box Cutter Killer doesn't just want to kill her. He wants to ruin her life, holding her at gunpoint from a distance and ordering her via telephone to call all of her former lovers and confess to how she lied and manipulated them.

Erin Cline is a decent actress and somehow carries the film for much of its near 90-minute running time. She's able to handle the beauty side of the film as well as dealing with the terror that the long conversation with the killer engenders. And she does really well in the scene that breaks the mold of the film where she talks to her mother, who doesn't believe that she could be a web cam girl.

The voice on the other side of the phone desperately wants to be Billy from Black Christmas. Unfortunately, it suffers by comparison. This movie might predate the incel movement, but it definitely feels like it understands it.

Writer/director Curt Wiser had a rough road ahead of himself making this, as the film is basically a one-woman show. There is a ton of ADR in this film, though, and often the actual audio when its person to person is a bit hard to hear. And by an hour into the film, I felt like the film could have been compressed a bit.

Its a fun watch if you like b-movies

[mastertorykent · 8/10 · 31 January 2020]

I just finished watching this, and I didn't expect a lot out of it to be honest, but the lead actress in it is pretty compelling and it drew me in quite a few times, just a fun thriller really, with a few good plot developments. If you are into indie movies it is worth giving it a watch, I was pleasantly surprised.

Color filled indie thriller

[Benjamin-Rider · 8/10 · 28 April 2017]

There's a sort of great creativity thrown into this particular project. The colours which fill Cam-Girl, often bursting into the scene, help break up its overly micro budget indie vibe. That's not to say that its production scale is overly felt, after all, the film is well written, and well thought out. Quite thrilling too... look forward to the next effort by this filmmaker, 'Slasher-Cam'.