Based on the Clive Barker short story, Dread, which made its world premiere at the 2009 edition of Montreal's Fantasia film festival, is remarkable on two fronts: Barker's striking departure from his traditional macabre story lines, and Anthony DiBlasi's impressive directorial debut.
Stephen (Jackson Rathbone) is a film student who is having difficulty deciding what to do for his thesis project. He is minoring in Psychology, so when one of his fellow psych students Quaid (Shaun Evans) suggests that they make a documentary study of the nature of fear, Stephen agrees and ropes in Cheryl (Hanne Steen) as editor. Together they advertise for participants in their study to be interviewed on camera about their darkest fears, and inevitably the three film-makers finally take their turns in front of the camera too. But someone has ideas for taking the project to the next level, to force the participants to confront their fears by taking them to the very limits of their terror.
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