Dread

Dread

By Jose

Plot:

Based on the Clive Barker short story, Dread is great on two fronts: Barker's departure from his traditional macabre story lines, and Anthony DiBlasi's impressive directorial debut.
The story unfolds with two college students, Steve (Twilight's Jackson Rathbone) and Quaid (Shaun Evans), agreeing to work together to create a documentary of people's innermost fears. The two put out a call for candidates and document their interviews on video. An expert manipulator, Quaid is able to coax these troubled souls into revealing their innermost demons; deeply personal revelations they would otherwise never dream of discussing in public, much less on camera. Meanwhile Quaid harbors deep seated psychological scars of his own, having been a childhood survivor of the brutal home invasion axe slaying of his parents at the hands of a mysterious psycho.
On the belief that by confronting one's ultimate fear an individual will either overcome their phobia or be consumed by it, Quaid convinces the more demure Steve, and friends Cheryl and Abby to participate in the study. Unknown to everyone involved, however, is Quaid's desire to take things to the next level, progressing beyond mere interviews to the actual physical and psychological nightmare of tackling their fears head on.

Final Thoughts:

Again this movie is not for everyone and is not an action packed, scare you every two seconds movie.
Dread is an interesting and different movie. It does not take the simple route of fear and overcoming it then happy ending. It takes what people fear and dread and perverts it. What if facing your fear makes it worse? What happens to a person that has this deep seated dread that to overcome it is to become it?

Extra Tidbit:

Seems Jackson Rathbone might be coming out of Twilight as a sleeper hit. I have been seeing him around in many different roles here and there and they are all good. I didn’t know about it but he plays the part of Sokka in the Last Airbender.

Rating: 4 out of 5