Dashcam
Momentum Pictures | Release Date: June 3, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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6
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13
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
IndieWireJude DrySep 16, 2021
Equal parts confounding, challenging, and insanely fun, “Dashcam” is horror at its most inventive. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJun 2, 2022
Dashcam is pure chaos, headlined by a character with a maelstrom for a personality. Read full review
80
EmpireBen TravisJun 1, 2022
It’s not for everyone — and should prove more divisive than Host — but Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd have done it again. Grab several friends, and prepare for a chaotic ride. Read full review
70
SlateSam AdamsSep 16, 2021
If you’ve ever watched a slasher movie and rooted for the killer, you’re ready for Dashcam, a found-footage horror movie whose COVID-denying protagonist is the scariest thing about it. Read full review
67
The PlaylistSimon ThompsonJun 2, 2022
Dashcam delivers a relentless, evolving monster movie that utilizes familiar genre tropes from various influences, including “REC,” “Chronicle,” and “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.” However, it brings enough to the table that doesn’t feel familiar to make it work effectively. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJun 3, 2022
Dashcam succeeds as a barrage of icky stimuli that may go great with a rowdy audience. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJun 7, 2022
Best seen in a cinema with the rowdiest audience you can find. Read full review
60
Little White LiesErin BradyJun 3, 2022
While the break-neck pacing effectively creates a chaotic feeling, it eventually takes away from the film’s harrowing effects. Nevertheless, even the most hardened horror fan is likely to feel a chill up their spine during the film. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJun 3, 2022
The filmmakers and Hardy sharply capture a particular type: the performative rebel, laser-focused on pushing other people’s buttons even while fleeing a demon. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellMay 31, 2022
Once again, the director and his co-writers Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd have made the absolute most of the minimal tools at their disposal, wringing a surprisingly robust hybrid of intense chase thriller, splatter film, and absurdist horror comedy out of a shoestring budget. However, DASHCAM is a lot more uneven than Host despite the superior production values, but they do combine to form what might end up going down in the history books as pandemic horror’s premiere double-feature. Read full review
58
The Film StageC.J. PrinceSep 16, 2021
A mixed bag, part entertaining and part annoying with a whole lot of gusto behind it. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMark HansonJun 1, 2022
Dashcam is nothing if not consistent, as it’s every bit the empty provocation as the troll at its center. Read full review
44
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 16, 2021
At the end of the day, “DASHCAM” actually doesn’t seem to have much of a point to make. It’s a mean little joke of a horror movie, one where the worst people seem to live longest and endure no consequences, and if that’s what “DASHCAM” has to say about life itself then fair enough, but it’s not presented with cleverness or pointed satire. Savage’s film just keeps digging a hole and somehow it never reaches any depth. Read full review
40
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannJun 10, 2022
Audiences are left with a puzzling mosaic of jump scares, one-note characters, and schlocky gore that will certainly disturb but won't leave much impact beyond its slim runtime. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyJun 2, 2022
The moment-to-moment incoherence of Dashcam makes it maddeningly hard to figure out what’s happening – the “WTF?”s that appear in the chat-box might just as well be our own. There’s a certain delirious energy to it. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJun 1, 2022
Annie is a lot to handle, even for the truncated 77-minute run time, and maybe it would work better as a V/H/S 20-minute slot – but then you wouldn't get quite so amazingly infuriated by her. Dashcam, like few films, relies on your annoyance. Read full review
40
The GuardianLeslie FelperinJun 1, 2022
Nasty, brutish and mercifully short, but occasionally mildly amusing, Dashcam represents another dollop of pandemic-themed shock schlock from writer-director Rob Savage, recently renowned for his lockdown-set horror pic Host. Read full review
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 19, 2022
You have to hope that Hardy is not this annoying in real life, because by the time Dashcam’s supernatural menace reveals itself, you’re firmly on Team Blood-Spewing-Zombie. Maybe that’s the point. It’s hard to tell. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveySep 16, 2021
The result is at once fun and fatiguing. Scary it’s not, and many viewers will find their patience tested by the character they most hope will be dealt a quick demise being the one we’re principally stuck with. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 14, 2021
While Nilsson’s instincts for making Dashcam an updated, new-tech “Blow Up” were good, his execution isn’t. Dashcam is a dry, slow and dull 80 minutes of a loner TV news editor stumbling into evidence that proves a Big Conspiracy behind the death of a famous politician. Read full review
20
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSep 16, 2021
As social commentary, it's weak. As a comedy, it's unfunny. As a horror movie, it's not very scary. Read full review
20
IGNKristy PuchkoSep 15, 2021
Even if you loved Host, skip Dashcam, Rob Savage’s provocative but woefully shallow, ugly, and cruel follow-up. Read full review
15
Paste MagazineMatt DonatoJun 1, 2022
Rob Savage’s Dashcam is the equivalent of strapping a GoPro to a Republican edgelord’s dirty diaper and throwing it into a blender. Read full review
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