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The fifth sacred thing review6/22/2023 While his rushed follow-up Dashcam was a total, at times embarrassing, bust – messy and saddled with a wildly grating lead – his closely followed Hollywood debut still arrives with more expectation than most studio horrors despite the conventional packaging.īased on a lesser-known Stephen King short story and lumped with a title so generic it’s already been used countless times before, The Boogeyman fits into current horror trends a little too perfectly. It was an imperfect film but a perfect calling card, showing how much Savage can do with so little. Based entirely on Zoom, it told the story of group of friends who decide to do a guided seance online, and while not a single viewer will be surprised about how this turns out to be a very, very bad idea, the ways in which it descends into chaos do prove at times genuinely unexpected. But fresh young British director Rob Savage, using the same base tools as his far more experienced peers, found a way to turn our eyerolls into wide-eyed admiration with his ingeniously effective horror Host.
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