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| Directed by | Rob Savage |
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| Edited by | Brenna Rangott |
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| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $70,585[1] |
Dashcam (stylised in all caps) is a 2021 horror film directed by Rob Savage and written by Savage, Gemma Hurley, and Jed Shepherd. The film stars Annie Hardy, Amer Chadha-Patel, and Angela Enahoro. It follows Hardy as a semi-fictionalized version of herself who leaves Los Angeles to visit a friend in London during the COVID-19 pandemic, only to find herself in a series of nightmarish events after agreeing to give a strange elderly woman a ride in her friend's car.
A screenlife film, Dashcam is presented entirely from the perspective of Hardy's iPhone as she livestreams her actions for viewers. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his company Blumhouse Productions, Savage through his company BOO-URNS, and Douglas Cox through Shadowhouse Films. Savage and Shepherd developed the idea for Dashcam based on Hardy's livestreamed YouTube series Band Car, in which she would work out song ideas in real-time with viewers while driving around Los Angeles. Savage felt the concept would make for a good found footage-style horror film, and ultimately asked Hardy to appear in it.
Dashcam had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was a runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness. It was later released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States on 3 June 2022. It received mixed reviews; most viewers praised its scariness and visual format, but felt that Hardy's character was so unlikable that the film came undone.
- ^ "Dashcam (2022)". The Numbers. Retrieved September 1, 2022.