Panic Fest 2022: Dashcam Review
In Rob Savage’s feature film follow-up to Host, viewers watch the troll anti-vaxxer Annie Hardy (played by the Giant Drag musician of the same name) through her livestreamed antics that eventually put her in harm's way.
Dashcam is shot entirely through mobile footage and a car dashcam. Annie sets the narrative from the get-go: She’s foul-mouthed, an amateurish freestyle rapper, and is totally over the COVID-19 pandemic. She flees the states with her bright red MAGA hat in tow to visit her ex-bandmate Stretch (Amar Chadha-Patel) and his girlfriend (played by Host actor Jemma Moore) — who serves no purpose but to react to Annie’s poor mannerisms. She’s portrayed through Annie’s eyes as shrill and prudish, and the viewers are immediately left questioning the movie’s perspective.
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While this Blumhouse production is filled with top-notch gore and an original storyline involving an elderly lady possessed by a sinister force, it is impossible to separate the movie from its cast. The real-life Hardy is seemingly identical to the caricature-esque character on the screen. Viewers watch Annie go full “Karen” on an innocent restaurant worker who requests that she wears a mask while inside the establishment, she steals Stretch’s car after she’s kicked out of the once-welcoming couple’s house, and she touts her lifestyle through her apparel, quick comments, and a dashboard figurine. Through a quick Twitter scroll, the two are revealed to be one in the same. The actor encourages her followers to stay away from the “woke kids” and she retweets posts that are marked with a red “misleading” stamp on the platform. She even has a beatboxing
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