Dread (2009) 5.7
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most. Director:Anthony DiBlasi |
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Dread (2009) 5.7
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most. Director:Anthony DiBlasi |
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Jackson Rathbone | ... | ||
Hanne Steen | ... |
Cheryl Fromm
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Laura Donnelly | ... |
Abby
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Jonathan Readwin | ... |
Joshua Shaw
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Shaun Evans | ... | ||
Vivian Gray | ... |
Tabitha Swan
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Carl McCrystal | ... |
Axe Man
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Derek Lea | ... |
Quaid's Father
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Siobhan Hewlett | ... |
Quaid's Mother
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Kieran Murphy | ... | ||
Cheyanne Raymond | ... |
Zooey
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Zoe Stollery | ... |
Shauna
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Elspeth Rae | ... |
Samantha
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Erin Gavin | ... |
Valerie
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Kerry Ann Smith | ... |
Nurse #1
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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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This movie was a real positive surprise. It felt both original and well done. Simply a real good movie to watch.
It's perhaps hard to place this movie in any particular genre. Psychological-horror would be the best way to describe this movie. It plays on the deep rooted fears of people but please don't expect from this movie to give you plenty of scare moments, or anything of that sort. It's not really an horror in the classic most common sense of the word. The drama plays an important part as well, which only strengthens the movie its psychological-horror aspects. In that regard alone this movie already works out as an original and interesting one.
But above all things, it's also a really well done film. It has a good build up and narrative, some fine actors and the movie has a good look over it as well. It's not a big budget movie that had a big cinematic release anywhere but you can't really tell that, judging by the movie its looks or just overall greatness. Actually hard to believe that this was the first ever movie for director Anthony DiBlasi, who was also rumored to direct the new Hellraiser movie for a while. He would had certainly been capable of it and he had worked with Clive Barker, the creator of the Hellraiser franchise, before, which was on this movie actually, that got based on a short story by Clive Barker. His approach of the horror and more serious story aspects, which he shows that he is capable off with this movie, would had been great for a new Hellraiser movie.
The movie has a story that steadily but slowly progresses. Yet the movie becomes never a boring or dragging one because it is capable of getting you involved with the characters and their stories. It's a real intriguing movie to watch and because it's being so original, you also can't really predict all the time what is going to happen next in it. No, not everything works convincing or works out as strong and effective as it could had but still this movie feels like a breath a fresh air and is perfectly watchable.
A nice, original, well done little film.
7/10
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