Dashcam

Dashcam (2022)

At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons L.A. for London, steals her ex-bandmate's car, and makes the fateful decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.

Date of release
2022-06-03
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (145)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Horror
Director
Rob Savage

Casting

Interesting facts

Dashcam is a 2021 horror film directed by Rob Savage, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd. It stars Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, and Angela Enahoro, and follows a semi-fictionalized version of Hardy who leaves Los Angeles for a surprise visit to her former bandmate in London during the COVID-19 pandemic, only to find herself in a series of nightmarish events after agreeing to escort a strange elderly woman to a secret location in her friend's car.

Production

The film was developed by Rob Savage and Jed Shepherd, who initially came up with the idea based on Annie Hardy's series Band Car, livestreamed YouTube videos in which she would work out song ideas while driving around Los Angeles.

Filming took place around Margate in late 2020, with the amusement park scenes shot at Dreamland Margate. Hardy spent her free time during production at the Albion Rooms, a hotel and recording studio owned by The Libertines, where she simultaneously recorded material for her band Giant Drag. To promote the film, Giant Drag released the song "Devil Inside" in June 2022. The song is featured in the film's closing credits.

The film features references to Savage's previous film Host (2020), such as viewers in Annie's live chat discussing the astral plane. It also features the primary cast of Host in small roles; Jemma Moore plays Stretch's girlfriend Gemma, James Swanton (who portrayed the demon in Host) portrays the monster, Seylan Baxter plays the restaurant owner who tasks Annie with transporting Angela, Haley Bishop voices the flight announcer at Los Angeles Int…

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