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Dread

Midnight Picture Show

Matador Pictures

Essential Entertainment

United Kingdom

English

Jackson Rathbone

Shaun Evans

Hanne Steen

Laura Donnelly

Jonathan Readwin

Vivian Gray

Carl McCrystal

Steven Clarke

Adam Davenport

Elissa Dowling

Paloma Faith

Erin Gavin

Siobhan Hewlett

Matt Jessup

Kieran Murphy

Leon Ockenden

Elspeth Rae

Cheyanne Raymond

Zoe Stollery

Michelle Tate

Iga Wyrwal

Kerry Ann Smith

Joanne Batten

Mark Chiu

Ian Pirie

Sarah Ball

Michael Mooney

Anthony DiBlasi

Gail Stevens

Charlotte Walls

Lauri Apelian

Clive Barker

Joe Daley

Jorge Saralegui

Nigel Thomas

Peter Burgis

Marnie Ormiston

Simon Sparsis

Robert Ireland

Andrew Taylor

Jonathan Cheetham

Celia Haining

Chris Lowe

Simon Godfrey

James Shannon

Gareth Milne

Niv Adiri

Sam McCurdy

Clare Cheetham

Rachael Levine

Paula L. Burr

Glenn Freemantle

Howard Bargroff

Susanna Wyatt

Julia Jones

Jonathan Wicks

Helene Oosthuizen

Jacqueline Fowler

Karen O’Sullivan

Nadia Khamlichi

Caroline Silk

Adrian Politowski

Andie Derrick

Theo Green

Gillian Dodders

Cristian Knight

Sexy is unique.

Dread is a deliciously spiteful British horror adapted from a Clive Barker short story. Plot has three college students meeting up and working together on a documentary about the nature of people’s fears. As things progress it becomes apparent that one of them has an ulterior motive.

Director and screenplay writer Anthony DiBlasi spends a considerable portion of the film establishing the psychological make-ups of the principal players, which is a key component to making the film work. Theo Green’s music trundles away menacingly during this portion of pic, while Sam McCurdy’s photography is on the money, with unnerving shades of green, reds and blues stripped back for a perfect troubled world feel.

Once the worm turns, and motives and mental anguishes show themselves, Dread reveals a cruel hand of such psychological force that the impact is troubling. Yet this is no torture porn picture, the gore is minimum and this for sure is not a slasher type of film either. It’s a slice of mental cruelty mixed with a damaged seed, two bad aspects of human nature crashing together to assault those interested in the psychologically based splinter of horror.

Oh and the ending is a cracker-jack, guaranteed to jolt you, for better or worse! 7.5/10

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