Dread

"Your Time Will Come."

2009 1h 48m EN

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5.5

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★5.5TMDB · 272

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Synopsis

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Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

“Your Time Will Come.”

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Cast

Jackson Rathbone
Stephen Grace
Shaun Evans
Quaid
Hanne Steen
Cheryl Fromm
Laura Donnelly
Abby
Jonathan Readwin
Joshua Shaw
Vivian Gray
Tabitha Swan
Carl McCrystal
Axe Man
Steven Clarke
Bruno

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Writers: Anthony DiBlasi, Clive Barker
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Anthony DiBlasi, shot by Sam McCurdy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Theo Green. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Celia Haining shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Your Time Will Come.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1331307 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Anthony DiBlasi directs. Sam McCurdy behind the camera. Theo Green scores. Celia Haining cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 17 years ago.
2Directed by Anthony DiBlasi, shot by Sam McCurdy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Theo Green. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Celia Haining shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Your Time Will Come.".
7IMDB entry: tt1331307 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 10 themes, including "experiment", "primal fear", "nightmare", "psychopath".

The technical file

Cinematography: Sam McCurdy
Original score: Theo Green
Editing: Celia Haining
Production design: Chris Lowe
Costume design: Michael Mooney
Makeup / hair: Karen O’Sullivan
VFX supervisor: Jonathan Cheetham
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Stunt coordinator: Gareth Milne
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Dread (2009)

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John Chard2014-11-01
★ 7.5/10
Sexy is unique. Dread is a deliciously spiteful British horror adapted from a Clive Barker short story. Plot has three college students meeting up and working together on a documentary about the nature of people’s fears. As things progress it becomes apparent that one of them has an ulterior motive. Director and screenplay writer Anthony DiBlasi spends a considerable portion of the film establishing the psychological make-ups of the principal players, which is a key component to making the film work. Theo Green’s music trundles away menacingly during this portion of pic, while Sam McCurdy’s photography is on the money, with unnerving shades of green, reds and blues stripped back for a perfect troubled world feel. Once the worm turns, and motives and mental anguishes show themselves, Dread reveals a cruel hand of such psychological force that the impact is troubling. Yet this is no torture porn picture, the gore is minimum and this for sure is not a slasher type of film either. It’s a slice of mental cruelty mixed with a damaged seed, two bad aspects of human nature crashing together to assault those interested in the psychologically based splinter of horror. Oh and the ending is a cracker-jack, guaranteed to jolt you, for better or worse! 7.5/10

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