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  Review by Tony the 1313 Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 ★★★½ 3

  I wanted to watch something else from the director of Last Shift and about ten minutes in I thought it all seemed familiar, but when Shaun Evans strips down and shows his bare ass to Jackson Rathbone I knew I had seen it before. Watched it again anyway and then came here and realized I had not only watched it but already logged it! Love that for me.

  Anyway, original rating still stands as it’s a pretty damn fun movie with a surprisingly sick finale. Jackson is extremely pretty but what the actual hell is going on with his hair in this?! I’m sure he was in the process of growing it out when this was filmed so that explains the awkward length, but whose idea was it to make it look like an actual rats nest?! Not sure I’ve seen anything like it before onscreen aside from maybe a comedy villain?

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  Review by Tony the 1313 Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 ★★★½ 3

  After Dark Original that I hadn’t seen before and maybe I’m just tired af and a little bit drunk after my 3rd 12 hour shift or maybe not, but I thought this was really good!
   
  It’s almost like the Saw movies if someone said “hey let’s make these complete psychological torture porn” instead of physical tortue porn. Great atmosphere and a unique story help elevate this above all the similarly glossy crap that came out around the same time and Jackson Rathbone is just wow just gorgeous, amiright??

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  Review by Wahltart Whit 6

  Metroid

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  Review by Adele 🪓 ★★

  European Cinema Binge #10 (Britain) 

  Is “I’m looking for a college thesis subject” a horror genre trope? 

  Loosely based on Books of Blood Volume 2 by British author Clive Barker, a sad empath, a cute film student, and an absolute maniac named Quaid (played by Shaun Evans) launch a deeply nonsensical “fear-study” to examine the emotion of dread.

  Quaid is looking for something to unhinge his own sanity; in short, he’s in college, bored, and very psychopathic. He runs around with a gun, dumps his meds, and says things like:

  “That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Some f*ckin honest to God trauma!”

  Dread suffers from structural issues, with part of the story told in non-linear style, but the short runtime poses…

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  Review by ZaraGwen ★½

  This took way too long to get to anything interesting and by the time it did I was too bored to care

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  Review by Brienne De Palma ★★★½

  Die Studenten Stephen, Quaid und Cheryl arbeiten an einer Studie über die Ursachen menschlicher Ängste, zu denen sie Kommilitonen befragen. Die drei haben selber Schlimmes in ihrer Kindheit erlebt. Quaid, dessen Eltern einem Axtmörder zum Opfer fielen, geht noch einen Schritt weiter.

  Clever, spannend und blutig ist dieser Psychohorror nach einer Geschichte von Clive Barker. Die relativ unbekannten Darsteller machen ihre Sache wirklich ordentlich und das Ende ist schon sehr heftig. Guter Film!

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  Review by Robert Shupe ★★★

  This movie is based on a Clive Barker short story from his Books of Blood series. I don't know how close to two are but the film intrigued me enough to want to go and read the source story.

  The movie does live up to its name. Three college students come together to complete a film project and they chose the subject of exploring what people fear and dread. This leads to a study of past trauma also.

  This is a very cruel movie. It has bullying taken to a terrifying level which will cause dread in the viewer.

  There was a point in the movie where I thought this could go in a certain direction and I sure hope…

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★½

  Maybe I'm not being clear enough. Maybe I need to be honest with you and tell you what I want.
  -Quaid

  This is my 55th horror film in a row. It would have been my 89th if I had not watched Bad Times at the El Royale in the middle of October. There's no way I come close to a streak like that again... till possibly next Horroctober. Already watched my next film and it's not a horror, so 55 is the streak for this year. I might go back and see what the streak was for past years, because... what else am I going to do? Enjoy life?

  An interesting take on Clive Barker's short story of the same…

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  Review by Roman Kirby ★★★

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  If this was French, I could see it ranking within the New French Extremity movement amongst Inside (2007) and Martyrs (2008). Maybe they should create the New British Extremity movement... who knows. Good film though - some very good visuals, editing and sound design if you can look past the low budget and at times shoddy cinematography.

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  Review by Max彡 ★★★½ 6

  Zum Buch kann ich hier nichts sagen da ich es nicht gelesen habe.

  Abgesehen davon ist "Dread" aber ein wirklich fieser Film der mit einigen echt harten Szenen bestückt ist. Alter Schwede, die paar Szenen fand ich sogar heftig und ekelhaft. Die Effekte sind auch wirklich sehr gut und haben auch mit dem sehr eigenen Color-Granding einen stimmigen Look. Mit dem Look wird sich definitiv nicht jeder anfreunden können und auch ich hatte anfangs meine Probleme damit aber trotzdem hab ich mich doch relativ schnell daran gewöhnt und es so akzeptiert.
  Die Figuren werden in der Laufzeit wirklich sehr gut beleuchtet und man hat am Ende das Gefühl jeden zu kennen. Auch der eher unbekannte cast überzeugt. Das ist alles sehr spannend zu verfolgen und fesselt an die Leinwand.

  Wenn man ein paar klitzekleine längen hin nehmen kann und auf fiese Filme wie zb. "Eden Lake" oder "Martyrs" steht dann sollte man hier definitiv mal einen Blick riskieren.

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  Review by Brad Hanson ★★★

  DiBlasi is a solid director; this features some lovely flourishes of camerawork. There's a nasty little mean streak to this with some dashes of pure brutality.

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  Review by molleigh ★★★½

  quaid i hate you i hate you so much