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Dread (2009)

Dread poster
Directed by
Anthony DiBlasi
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 259 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college student makes a documentary about what people fear most. He convinces a group of fellow students to participate in his project, but his methods become increasingly obsessive and cruel.

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What happens

Dread is a 2009 British horror film directed and written by Anthony DiBlasi and starring Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Evans, loosely based on the short story of the same name by Clive Barker. The story was originally published in 1984 in volume two of Barker's Books of Blood short story collections. The movie introduces several characters and situations that did not exist in the story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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