Now, once again, that wrong has been righted by Official Competition, a delicious movie-business satire written and directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn. Cruz is a pretentious art-house director who is adapting a Nobel-prizewinning novel. Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have been two of Spanish cinema's most glamorous superstars for decades, and yet have only rarely acted on screen together. Released on 3 June in the UK, Ireland and the US 'Equal parts confounding, challenging, and insanely fun, Dashcam is horror at its most inventive.' But the woman is not quite as harmless as she first appears. 'Savage, Hurley, and Shepherd have once again proven a canny ability to tap into the darkest corners of the zeitgeist while producing genuinely entertaining and chilling horror,' says Jude Dry at IndieWire. An outspoken Covid-denier and anti-masker, she flies to London to escape US restrictions and ends up giving an old woman (Angela Enahoro) a lift through the countryside in a friend's car. Shot on an iPhone, the film purports to be drawn from a livestream by a Los Angeles-based musician (Annie Hardy).
The follow-up from the same director, Rob Savage, and his co-writers, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd, sinks its teeth into the same vein. One of the best films of 2020, Host was a low-budget found-footage horror movie which put a demonic twist on all of our pandemic-related fears.
