Horror Highlights: BODYCAM, FORBIDDEN FRUITS, OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, Unnamed Footage Festival

In this edition of Horror Highlights, we have a look at the trailers for Bodycam, Forbidden Fruits, and Over Your Dead Body, as well as the first wave of films (including Frogman Returns) for the ninth edition of the Unnamed Footage Festival taking place in San Francisco March 24th–29th!

Official Trailer for BODYCAM, Streaming on Shudder Friday, March 13th: “When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, a startling escalation leads to a tragic accident. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up – only to reveal that their body cameras aren’t the only things watching them.

Director: Brandon Christensen
Screenwriters: Ryan Christensen and Brandon Christensen
Cast: Jaime Callica, Sean Rogerson, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Angel Prater, Keegan Connor Tracy
Executive Producers: Kerry Cooper, Ty Sivertsen, Andy Thompson, James Norrie, Nina Kolokouri
Producers: Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Brandon Christensen
Cinematographer: Clayton Moore
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Runtime: 75 min”

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Official Trailer for FORBIDDEN FRUITS: “Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.

Director: Meredith Alloway

Written by: Meredith Alloway, Lily Houghton

Starring: Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain, Gabrielle Union

Producers: Mason Novick, Diablo Cody, Trent Hubbard, Mary Anne Waterhouse

World Premiering at SXSW on March 17, 2026

In Theaters Everywhere on March 27, 2026″

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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY Trailer: “Directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone (Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping, MacGruber) OVER YOUR DEAD BODY will have its world premiere at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) on Saturday, March 14.

Starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine, the film follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

‘Jorma Taccone stands as one of the most creative and reliably brilliant voices in comedy and we are delighted to collaborate with him and our friends at 87North, XYZ, and Resolute Films on OVER YOUR DEAD BODY,’ said Head of Independent Film Group Scott Shooman. ‘The film is a dark, twisted, and riotous action comedy, with a killer cast – a perfect recipe to delight audiences on the big screen.’

Synopsis: A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

Starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith Jardine
Director: Jorma Taccone
Screenplay: Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney
Producers: Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, Aram Tertzakian, Nick Spicer, Guy Danella, Lee Kim
Executive Producers: Kjetil Omberg, Jørgen Storm Rosenberg, Tommy Wirkola, Jorma Taccone, Maxime Cottray, Nate Bolotin, Timo Argillander, Andrea Scarso
Co-Producer: Karen Gillan
Director of Photography: Matthew Weston, FNF
Editor: Jeremy Cohen
Production Designer: Joseph A. Hodges
Costume Designer: Ninna Päiväläinen
Casting Director: Melissa Kostenbauder
Production Companies: 87North, XYZ, Resolute Films
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Not Yet Rated | 105 Minutes

World Premiering at SXSW on March 14, 2026

In Theaters Everywhere on April 24, 2026″

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Unnamed Footage Festival 2026 Announces First Wave of Films: “The Unnamed Footage Festival (UFF) team is excited to reveal the first wave of films for its highly anticipated 9th edition, including world premieres, new releases, and returning UFF alums.

Taking place from March 24th through March 29th, 2025, UFF9 will be screening an unrivaled lineup of found footage features and shorts at San Francisco’s historic Balboa Theater. With the theatrical releases of UFF alumni such as DOOBA DOOBA, DREAM EATER, and HUNTING MATTHEW NICHOLS, among others, found footage is experiencing a renaissance. As such, UFF has expanded its line up to include a fourth full day of films on Thursday, March 26th, guaranteeing the most expansive lineup in festival history.

Leading up to the festival, the Unnamed Footage Festival will be co-presenting Terror Tuesday with San Francisco’s Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, on March 24th. On Wednesday, March 25th, UFF will be kicking off the festivities proper, with its annual Recalibration Party taking place at the Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco’s historic Mission district. Open to all festival attendees, the Recalibration Party features a chance to mingle with found footage fans and filmmakers, as well as catch a movie and enjoy copious libations during UFF’s annual Power Hour, featuring a rapid fire barrage of 60 found footage clips in 60 minutes.

Thursday through Sunday we dive into the heart of the festival: four full days of non-stop found footage horror, faux documentary, screenlife, and all forms of in-world-camera. Each day is loaded with fantastic titles, featuring a mix of familiar filmmakers and bold new voices in found footage. UFF Alumni Dillon Brown returns to the fest with his spectacular new feature, PRIMAL DARKNESS, which will be released on exclusive found footage streaming platform FOUNDTV shortly after the screening. Also returning to the festival will be Anthony Cousins with FROGMAN RETURNS, and Adrian Țofei with WE PUT THE WORLD TO SLEEP, his long awaited followup to the depraved and unforgettable BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE. Films by newcomers include the hospital bodycam thriller INFIRMARY from Nicholas Pineda, Samuel Freeman’s wildly experimental feature DON’T LOOK IN THE DARK, and Baptist Agostini-Croce’s micro budget Folk horror HERITAGE.

The complete schedule and second wave will be announced soon with more premieres, special events, and retro screenings. Badges are on sale now via FilmFreeway.

FIRST WAVE OF UFF FILM SELECTIONS

PRIMAL DARKNESS (2026, dir. Dillon Brown) WORLD PREMIERE

With the Tahoe Joe trilogy complete, Dillon Brown (Tahoe Joe, Ghost, The Summer We Dies) returns to found footage with his most intense film yet. Hoping to kick off the second season of his series with a bang, hunting influencer Cole Harrington travels into the wilderness of Northern Nevada in search of a mountain lion that’s been menacing local livestock, but when he finds a camera belonging to a pair of missing hikers his hunting expedition becomes a fight for survival with something much more dangerous than a simple wildcat.

While his Tahoe Joe films embrace the goofiness of the regional cryptid, PRIMAL DARKNESS is pure horror, using the isolation and emptiness of Northern Nevada—and the area’s numerous abandoned mines—to craft a bleak tale of survival that is not to be missed.

FROGMAN RETURNS (2026, dir. Anthony Cousins)

In the sequel to his hit creature feature, Anthony Cousins (Frogman, Scare Package) delivers another buffet of frights and frogs in this creature-feature sequel. Featuring new and familiar faces alike, FROGMAN RETURNS picks up where Frogman left off. Delving into the lore of the Loveland Frogman, this sequel cranks everything up to eleven, guaranteeing a froggy fantasy filled with more frogmen than you can wave a magic wand at.

Frogs aside, Cousins’ background as a cinematographer shines through in this film FROGMAN RETURNS adopts a far different style than its predecessor, eschewing the tracking lines and static of a Hi8 for crisp, digital look, that lets it show off its amazing practical effects creatures.

Hail Frogman!

WE PUT THE WORLD TO SLEEP (2026, dir. Adrian Țofei)

Adrian and Duru get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film and embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. What follows goes beyond their wildest imagination.

If you haven’t seen Adrian Țofei’s 2015 feature Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, stop reading and watch it right now. If you have seen it, you’ll know that Țofei is a master of the bizarre, and his newest film is no exception. The middle film of a spiritual trilogy that includes Be My Cat and the upcoming Pure, WE PUT THE WORLD TO SLEEP expands his confrontational style into something far more expansive. Shot over nearly a decade across Romania, Türkiye, and Ukraine, the film merges autofiction and layered reality games into a constantly shifting perspective piece. Rather than simply revisiting the confessional intimacy of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, Țofei widens the frame to challenge what “captured reality” even means.

INFIRMARY (2025, dir. Nicholas Pineda)

When Edward, an ex-marine, takes a job as a security guard at the abandoned Wilshire Hospital, he expects to face long nights and the occasional vagrant, but instead finds himself thrown into a nightmare. Scheduled for demolition, the former mental hospital is a maze of labyrinthine hallways, and Edward’s night is only made worse by a mysterious prowler, a sinister hospital administrator, and a slew of medical dummies that refuse to stay put. As tension mounts, Edward’s new job turns into a terrifying fight for survival with forces he can barely comprehend.

Nicholas Pineda’s directorial debut is a found footage tour de force, sporting a stellar central performance from lead actor Paul Syre (Smoking Tigers, Badly in Love) and an unforgettable locale, INFIRMARY is sure to delight found footage fans looking for a scare.

HERITAGE (2026, dir. Baptist Agostini-Croce) WORLD PREMIERE

Fifteen years after leaving Corsica, Marie and Daniel return to visit their elderly grandfather. Looking to capture their reunion, they pick up the family camcorder, but what they uncover is far from what they expected. With its stylized combination of camcorder and archival footage, HERITAGE is a verisimilitudinous journey into Corsica, as it follows an array of misfits as it explores the isolation, ennui, and unwelcomeness they feel in their own island home.

Steeped in Corsican folklore, HERITAGE cements first-time filmmaker Baptist Agostini-Croce as a powerful new voice in found footage. Between its grounded, nigh-improvisational performances from local Corsican actors and footage captured on an actual consumer camcorder, HERITAGE evokes the found footage yore, and channels the raw immediacy that first captivated found footage horror audiences.”