One of the appalling — and appealing — traits of malevolent presences onscreen is that they can be so darn imprecise in their revenge.
Often victims of unfairness, ghosts and assorted other supernatural baddies may exact a semi-rational but flawed retribution.
(Got bullied? Easy: Kill all the randy teens.) So it’s right to wonder what’s up with the cop killer in “Body Cam,” starring Mary J.
Blige, with fine backup from Nat Wolff.After all, the targets of the ravenous violence appear to be cops of color — not that the police department takes note of the pattern.
But for viewers, it should be striking.
What can that fact possibly portend? What’s the contemporary moral here? These questions dog “Body Cam,” making it intriguing, though not exactly visionary; it’s more twisted puzzle than horror ride.
Not that there aren’t jumpy moments, and tense interludes.In his sophomore feature,
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