Stephen King loved ‘Cam’ movie on Netflix, Blumhouse’s new thriller

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• Stephen King gave his stamp of approval to Netflix and
  Blumhouse’s new thriller, “Cam,” on Monday.
• “Loved CAM, on Netflix. Great lead performance by
  Madeline Brewer,” King tweeted.
• Critics also love the movie, which has a 95% Rotten
  Tomatoes critic score.

“Cam,” a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse — the
production company behind the latest “Halloween” and “Get Out” —
dropped on Netflix on Friday. Not only has it received glowing
reviews, but horror master Stephen King praised it, as well.

King tweeted on Monday, “Loved CAM, on Netflix. Great lead
performance by Madeline Brewer.”

Blumhouse responded to the tweet with,
“Huge compliment from you!!”

Here’s Netflix’s description for the film: “When an
impersonator takes over her
profile, cam girl Alice sets out to solve
her own identity theft and regain control of her online
persona.”

“Cam,” directed by Daniel Goldhaber, has a 95% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, and reviews have
also praised Brewer’s performance. Brian Tallerico wrote for
RogerEbert.com that the film “has two
things going for it that instantly elevate it above a lot of
genre product: a great concept and an even better
performance.”

Slate’s Inkoo Kang compared
the movie to Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series, “Black
Mirror.”

“If the first half of ‘Cam’ is pleasantly episodic and
purringly tense, the latter half—in which Alice searches for her
hacker—is clever, inventive, and wonderfully evocative,” Kang
wrote. “A kind of ‘Black Mirror’ for cam girls, its frights
are limited to this tiny slice of the web, but no less resonant
for that.”

The movie follows another recent horror hit from Netflix,
TV series “The Haunting of Hill House,” which King also loved. “Hill House”
has generated praise from horror fans and critics alike, and
currently has a 90% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Between
that, “Cam,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” and more, Netflix
has delivered quality content for horror fans this season.

“Cam” is now streaming on Netflix and playing in select
theaters.