We called his latest found-footage horror Dashcam “The Future of Horror” and now Host director Rob Savage is going to get to work with one of the masters of the genre having been tapped to direct an adaptation of Stephen King short story The Boogeyman. Per Deadline, Savage will direct a two-hour film for 20th/Hulu from […]
DASHCAM: The Future of Horror is Here! | TIFF 2021 Video Review
EJ Moreno with a video review of Rob Savage’s DASHCAM… Toronto International Film Festival premiered one of the year’s most interesting horror films with DASHCAM. Director Rob Savage returns after his breakout hit, 2020’s Host, with a new found-footage romp from Blumhouse. Critic EJ Moreno breaks down why this is one of his favorite films […]
Rob Savage’s follow-up to lockdown horror The Host is titled Dashcam
In what has been a particularly trying time for the film industry, one of the success stories to emerge from the past 18-months was the Zoom party poltergeist horror Host (read our ★★★★ review here), inventively directed during the first lockdown by Rob Savage. Well, instead of enjoying their triumph during the subsequent lockdowns, Savage, […]
Blu-ray Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020. Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Seylan Baxter and James Swanton. SYNOPSIS: A séance performed via Zoom goes horribly wrong. It was only a matter of time before ‘Lockdown Horror’ became a thing and the first past the post to claim this inevitable […]
Movie Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020. Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, and Radina Drandova. SYNOPSIS: Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly zoom call. Their normal group chat turns dark when a seance goes wrong. For anyone experiencing life in the last few months, we all know Zoom calls can […]
Host filmmakers set new horror project at StudioCanal
Following on from their hit lockdown horror Host, director Rob Savage and producer Jed Shepherd have set up a new project – described as “The Conjuring behind bars” – at StudioCanal. “[It’s a ] melding of the prison escape movie and the haunted house movie, in which a group of women who stage an unsuccessful […]
Sam Raimi producing single-location supernatural horror film
He’s going to be pretty busy in the Multiverse of Madness as he takes on directing duties on Marvel’s Doctor Strange sequel, but it seems that Sam Raimi won’t be slowing down on the producing front during his spell with the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Deadline is reporting that he’s set to produce a new […]
Exclusive Interview – Critically-acclaimed director Kate Herron chats tentacled vagina monsters and her festival-favourite short Smear
Ben Robins chats with director Kate Herron about her festival favourite short Smear… There’s never been a better time for genre fans to dive into the British short film “scene”. Hot on the heels of the Alice Lowes and Ben Wheatleys of this world, are an entire new movement of young, cult-driven filmmakers, pushing old-school […]
