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Dread](Dread (2009) - IMDb) (UK/US): I’m going to act like I don’t know how Clive Barker’s original short story played out, as I didn’t know when going into the film, but that still leaves this adaptation a bit too long-winded for its own good. Stephen (Jackson Rathbone) and Quaid (Shaun Evans) team up for a college project on what people fear most, and sure enough, this little social experiment of theirs goes too far. It’s an interesting premise, eventually carried out to a foreseeable but intense climax, shot moodily throughout by first-time director Anthony DiBlasi, but the redundant dorm-worthy moralizing delivered by our fairly obvious villain and a tacked-on ain’t-that-wicked twist only make it more apparent that Dread was a story perhaps better deserving of, say, a “Masters of Horror” episode rather than a feature-length treatment.
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