Wednesday 23 March 2011

Horror Movie Dread (2009) Review



Director:


Anthony DiBlasi



Writers:


Anthony DiBlasi (screenplay), Clive Barker (short story "Dread")



Stars:



Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen


Dread is a horror movie based on a story written by horror master Clive Barker. It is directed by Anthony DiBlasi and it stars Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Evans.

The begins with a student called Stephen Grace(Rathbone) who meets a guy called Quaid(Evans). Stephen is at college and they being to chat about fear and it seems that Quaid is very interested in what makes people afraid. Quaid is an artist and he asks Stephen to conduct a study of fear and what causes people to be terrified. Stephen agrees to do the study with him for his college course. Stephen has a female friend called Abby(Laura Donnelly) who has a gigantic birth mark covering half of her face and body. She likes Stephen. Stephen asks a classmate of his called Cheryl(Hanne Steen) to help him on his study. They get on very well together. Stephen and Cheryl find out that Quaid's parents were murdered by a man in his house and he witnessed it. He is still afrad that the killer will find him. We find out that Cheryl was abused by her dad and that she still feels scared by that when she smells meat as her dad used to work in an abattoir and she could smell it on his hands.

The outcast cinema student, Stephen Grace, does not drive cars due to the trauma of losing his brother in a car accident. He befriends, Quaid, who since the age of 6 has experienced dreadful nightmares and daydreams about the death of his parents. Quaid proposes they research about each one's innermost fear. Stephen sees the chance of developing an original thesis for college and invites his friend, Cheryl, to work with them. Among the interviewees, Stephen talks to his colleague, Abby who works with him in the library. Abby has a complex about the way she looks. When the work is almost complete, Quaid has an outburst at one interviewee's and ends up destroying the camera and editing equipment. Stephen begins to re-evaluate the situation.

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