[FILM]
DASHCAM
Left, top to bottom: Annie Hardy, up to her neck in it; Car-nage pool; Happy times at the cappucino bar; Two stars for this driver.
Alamy
★★★★
OUT 3 JUNE CERT TBC / 77 MINS
DIRECTOR Rob Savage
CAST Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro
PLOT During her livestream improvised music show, provocative musician Annie Hardy (Hardy) steals a car from her friend Stretch (Chadha-Patel) and sets off on an evening of music and mayhem. But her already chaotic night takes a turn when she picks up mysterious elderly woman Angela (Enahoro) and encounters an occult plot.
IF THERE’S ONE thing you need to know about DASHCAM, it’s this: yes, it is fucking with you. Rob Savage’s second feature film — his first for Blumhouse, following the success of super-sharp lockdown Zoom-seance hit Host — is imbued with the mischievous personality of an internet troll, designed to shock, confound, enrage and entertain in equal measure. The other thing you need to know is that it’s brilliant, and confirms Savage — and his co-writers and fellow producers Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd — to be among the most exciting voices in British cinema, horror or otherwise.