Best movie of this year hands down!

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

As a child Quaid (Shaun Evans) witnessed his parents murdered with an ax as a child. He has nightmares and hallucinations about it. In college he gets together with two other students, Steven (Jackson Rathbone) and Cheryl (Hanne Steen) to do a study about fear and dread. Once the interview stage is complete, Quaid wants to take his study to the next level by making people face their fears.The film has all the elements of a good horror slasher: decent build-up, characters, nudity, cute ending, and some originality. For some reason it didn't grab me like it should have. Perhaps it was the non-likeability of Quaid, or the softness of Steven's character.F-bomb, sex, nudity (Erin Gavin, Laura Donnelly + others)

Again, as i have said for other films, this is not entertainment unless you are a certified psychopath. I am quite sure the director of this film worships Satan and wishes that he was the main character of this film who brutally tortures the other characters and kills them and leaves one alive to suffer for only God knows how long and gets away with it never coming to justice. The message behind this film is a serious one sent form a truly sadistic person who really wishes that evil would always win. If you are a psychopath and going into the mind of Satan is your favorite thing to do, then you will love this but if you are just a normal person who likes to be scared and entertained, don't watch this satanic sh#t!

Dread is another film I can add to the list of terribly underrated Horror films. As a Horror freak I've had my share of films of the past 2 decades, and I must say watching this one has been a very rewarding experience.The screenplay and script are unique and well made, the story is very original and unfolds in an interesting and compelling way. This is not a fast paced thriller, but more of a psychological Drama with fear as a motive. It doesn't have any surprising scares like a Slasher or a Ghost flick might, and in a way it's more disturbing than scary. The acting is great if you ask me, the entire cast is professional and talented.Dread is a different type of Horror film, The Horror bit doesn't start before the final quarter, and until then it's mostly drama. Also, the type of horror isn't all that original, nothing surprising or shocking unless you've never seen "torture porn" before. However, the disturbing conclusion of the film is presented without any visual gore, more like "mental gore" and cruelty. Call it what you will, the effect is immense.All in all, Dread is original and well made, and I'm real frustrated with IMDb users for rating it so low. All I can say is that I hope you give it a chance, as it's a great film and definitely recommended!

A philosopher who visits strip clubs and screws around with pre-adult lads? Definitely, the original plot has nothing to do with this.The book's Quaid is apparently a person who has not interest in sexuality, nor cares about anyone's welfare/distress or far less holds resentfully grudges towards younger not experienced college students and fight against them like kid in the schoolyard defending the product of his obsession.Quaid of the book is a tall nerdy older guy mentally detached from the campus habitat and very intimidating since the first moment Steve sees him. Shaun Evans character in the movie... isn't intimidating at all (either intellectually or physically) and anyway nothing in the set trigger your senses like the book does, the blame isn't in his performance of course, it lies just in who dared to make this whole thing. Not to mention Steve's actor and the purpose of his presence here as the new Johnny Depp fangirls hunter ("so at least we ensure, if only, the tiniest audience possible") and so on with all the elements of this movie made for teen minds.The plot follows an independent line from the true basis of the original story, taking some parts of it and misusing its sentences, and immerses itself in a frivolous, plain and silly world that nullifies even one of the most remarkable parts of the book that is the spectacular and perturbing final scene with a disturbed Steve as a clown.Clive Barker's book does not talk about revenge or shallow emotions but dig into the depths of the real fear of each character and focus specially on the concept itself, i.e.-Nothing to do with this.As you can see I am angry but not surprised with this. Angry because the story from the book is unique and this failure doesn't deserve its reference, and not surprised because American industry and money are always above the true art and after all it's a lost battle because most people is content with nonsense like this everyday.There's a comic about this story adapted by Fred Burke and illustrated by Dan Brereton which at least displays it following the steps of Clive's visions but in my opinion lacks energy, anyway, It reflects it better than what we have here in hand.Only thing I wonder is how Clive Barker could have allowed this aberration see the light or even support it if he really did.Don't get me wrong, I try to keep in mind and appraise the effort of every work but here It's impossible, this is a total offense on the book.