Talk about misdirected talent. After proving himself an adept director in the screenlife subgenre of horror with 2020's "Host", Rob Savage returns with the inexplicable "Dashcam", in which we follow a talentless MAGA Karen streamer as she improvises shit-tier songs, spouts anti-vax talking points and, eventually, agrees to transport a sick-looking old woman between locations, triggering a night of dramatic horror. As did "Host", "Dashcam" pulls off some pretty neat tricks and jumpscares throughout its brief runtime but is undone by a) its incoherency and b) one of the most insufferable protagonists in horror history. I'm all for seeing terrible people put through the wringer, but spending 80 minutes with this apparently only lightly fictionalised version of Annie Hardy was a bit much even for me. This is really the kind of shit that might be a lot more bearable as a segment in a "V/H/S" installment, and it'd probably have a better pay-off too.
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