Instead, he was sneakily showing them a prerecorded video on his phone an intricately made short film that showed him ascending a ladder before seemingly being attacked by a zombie-like creature after peering inside the attic (actually a clip taken from the 2007 Spanish found footage horror film he had seamlessly spliced with his own footage). What Savage’s group of friends saw on their screens wasn’t, however, live. “So I got everyone together on a Zoom call and told them that I’m going to investigate the strange sound.” “I’d been telling my friends about these noises, and I figured that it was a good excuse to play a prank,” he says. This wasn’t - of course - the case, as he discovered when he eventually climbed up to the hatch to check it out. He initially brushed it off, but when the lockdown hit and he couldn’t leave, he suddenly began to worry that he might be living below an ax murderer. Having moved into a new apartment about a year before the coronavirus crisis unfolded in early 2020, Savage had begun hearing weird sounds and creaking footsteps coming from the attic above his bedroom, the only place he didn’t have immediate access to. But this capitalizing on the crisis came about - at least initially - entirely by creative accident, and via a route that may well end up in horror filmmaking folklore. “It’s just me and the billionaires,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Previously best known for the microbudget feature Strings, which he wrote and directed at 17 years old and which won the Raindance Award at the 2012 British Independent Film Awards, Savage admits that he’s become something of a “pandemic profiteer.” A (slightly) more traditionally made found-footage genre feature, although one still set during lockdown, Dashcam follows two friends on what is described as a “fucked-up horror road trip as they live-stream the most terrifying night of their lives.” It’s also the first film from a three-picture deal Savage signed with Blumhouse in the wake of Host ’s success. premiere of his follow-up, Dashcam, which had its world premiere in Toronto last month. Meet Lucas Englander, the "Chameleon" of 'Transatlantic'Īnd while Host continues to attract fans (it’s a film “best viewed at home on your laptop,” claims Savage), its 29-year-old director is now preparing for the BFI London Film Festival’s U.K.
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