Bodycam is a wickedly smart horror film that gives you goosebumps that sink into your bloodstream and rattle your brain.

For a while, the found-footage horror thriller "Bodycam" appears to have something to say and, therefore, a better-than-average sense of how to handle its subgenre’s tropes and tics. Then, in the last 10-15 minutes, the illusion is spoiled.

There is an undeniable energy and spookiness to this low-budget chiller, which makes intelligently modest use of digital FX in a way that some bigger-budget projections would do well to emulate.

Bodycam blends digital dread with today’s zeitgeist in distrust of authority. The result is an indie flick that’s more intriguing than terrifying, and only hovers on the horror periphery.