Starring: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin, & Vivian Gray
Directed By Anthony DiBlasi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1331307/
Will somebody please stop this madness? Taking Clive Barker short stories and making them into full length features is bad. Especially anything from the Books Of Blood series. Raw Head Rex was terrible, Midnight Meat Train was so so, and now we have this piece of garbage, which is almost completely void of anything entertaining other than the death/torture scenes. I really hope that Disney gets the Abarat series at least somewhat right.
Dread is nothing more than a filler movie for Jackson Rathbone during the gap between Twilight and New Moon. The other actors involved brought nothing worth mention to the table. Shaun Evans was a total laugh as a bad guy, and probably would've been knocked out cold by anybody else for his constant antics. What was the purpose of this movie anyway? To capture on the Torture Porn scene that has almost become a joke in itself?
Without going on and on, here's the story in a nutshell.... A group of College kids decide to partake in an experiment as to what people dread the most, and as fate would have it, that same dread is used against each other. I will say that some of the scenes were disturbing, but nothing so much that would make me look away. It does take awhile for the story to get going, and that is one of the biggest letdowns. The other being the acting.
Do yourself a favor. Read the short story by Clive Barker and be you own judge. As expected the higher ups are trying to make things easier for the viewer by adding more than the original story had, but the short story is better paced and doesn't make you feel like you're in a video detention camp watching a waste of time picture.
-Mr. What?- ( * )
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