Full Trailer for the Found Footage-Style Horror Movie DASHCAM
Blumhouse and Momentum Pictures have released a full trailer for the upcoming horror thriller from Dashcam. This is a found footage and social media style movie, and it comes from genre filmmaker Rob Savage, who broke out in 2020 with a Zoom horror film titled Host.
I love a good horror film, but the footage that I’ve seen from this film so far just isn’t doing it for me. I didn’t care for the previously released teaser, and after watching this full trailer, I’m still not sold on it. I’m just over this style of filmmaking, but maybe it will tell a decent story. The description of the film actually makes it sound good, but the trailers just aren’t grabbing my interest.
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 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.