Notable Cast: Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela
Enahoro
After taking the horror world by storm with his Zoom séance
nightmare known as Host, director Rob Savage became an overnight
sensation in the genre cinema world. If he could pull off that kind of
effective horror filmmaking in 60+ minutes with minimal resources in the middle
of a pandemic where all of the stars were quarantined, what could he do with
more? It’s the question that often gets asked of stylistic and bold indie
filmmakers and many of them flounder under the expectations of larger studio
pressures or other external factors. The follow-up to a blank check guarantor
is always exciting.
With his follow-up, Dashcam, Rob Savage partnered up
with Blumhouse to dig back into the “found footage” end of the genre, and,
quite frankly, it’s easy to see why he would. His technical prowess in
delivering some shocking visuals and moments within the confines of the style
is impressively bombastic with this film. If anything, Dashcam knows
that it doesn’t want to deviate too far from the style that worked in Host,
but it also wants to expand on it in some immense ways. The combination, while
occasionally at odds with one another, provides one of the more fascinating
horror experiences of the year.