Eerie Teaser Trailer for Blumhouse's Found Footage-Style Horror Film DASHCAM
The first teaser trailer has been released for a new found footage-style horror thriller from Blumhouse and Momentum Pictures titled Dashcam. The movie comes from genre filmmaker Rob Savage, who broke out in 2020 with a Zoom horror film titled Host, which he shot during the pandemic.
This first trailer builds up the suspense, but it didn’t really do much for me. Maybe the movie will be good, maybe it won’t, but this trailer didn’t make me want to spend my time watching it. The marketing sure does make the movie sound exciting, though!
The story follows two friends on “a horror-fueled road trip as they livestream the most terrifying night of their lives.” The movie is “framed within a livestream” and it center on an indie-rock musician who portrays a self-consciously obnoxious exaggeration of her own polarizing online persona. “Exasperated and depressed by her pandemic lifestyle in Los Angeles, she breaks quarantine for London, England, and the hospitality of a former bandmate. But when her fringe beliefs and selfish behaviour incite contempt from her progressive friends, her response inadvertently propels her (and her online audience) into a perilous and profane high-wire horror chase through an increasingly foreboding English countryside."
The movie is also said to have “a manic momentum, innovative camerawork, and shockingly cavalier nihilism reminiscent of the original Evil Dead, Savage and his lead have fearlessly constructed an uncomfortable emblem of triggering social media extremities in this anti-hero, and they put her (and the unfortunate souls in her orbit) through a dizzying wringer of inventive gore, gallows humour, and impish provocations. Audiences will either smash that proverbial like button, or be incensed to tweet vitriol, but the discourse that erupts is guaranteed to leave a mark.”
The cast also includes Annie Hardy as “Herself,” Amar Chadha-Patel as Stretch, Angela Enahoro as Angela, and Seylan Baxter as Seylan.
Dashcam will be released in select theaters and on VOD starting on June 3rd, 2022.