Dread (2009)

Release date: 2009-10-30
Country: UK|USA
Language: English
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Production Co: Essential Entertainment, Matador Pictures, Midnight Picture Show
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: 5.7/10
Length: 1h 48min

Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

birthmark, punched in the face, murder, maggot, hospital, held captive, cruelty, child abuse, blood, axe, axe murder, after dark horrorfest, painting, stripper, tied to a chair, childhood trauma, psychological horror, college student, fear, violence

Short Review

a twisted psychological thriller that combines the phobic focus of Fearless (1993), the discomfiting reflexivity of Peeping Tom (1960), and the abhorrent torments of Seed (2007).