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Director:

Michael Spence

Writers:

Casey Conlon (writer)
Karen C. O'Malley (writer)
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Release Date:

2007 (USA) more

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Inside every man... there is a monster... waiting to be unleashed more

Plot:

A young woman becomes filled with a horrible dread when she discovers that her brother may actually be something other than he appears. full summary | add synopsis

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Evil Dead’s Ellen Sandweiss talks Dangerous Women
 (From Fangoria. 30 January 2009, 1:44 PM, PST)

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Cast

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Sally Pressman ... Teri
Ellen Sandweiss ... Diane
Ryan Welsh ... Chris
Sid Ellis ... Derek
J. Steadman ... Alex
Marvin Bernard ... Nick
Tom Sullivan ... Dr. Boorstin
Marvin Benard ... Det. Nick Walenchky

Nicolas Pangborn ... Creature
Yvonne Galmiche ... Macy
Morris Stulberg ... Mr. Cranston
Jet Valentine ... Young Alex
Richard Steward ... Jack
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Donn Brown ... Police Officer
Diane Cox ... Alex and Teri's Mother
Meghan Eden ... June
William Ellwood ... Orderly #2
Kristie Fitts ... Admitting Nurse (as Kristi Fitts)
Alexis Hausmanis ... Young Teri
Isabel Holtreman ... Linda
Brian Kilborn ... Brandon
Jim Libbey ... Mental Patient #2
Sarah Maclean-Nagle ... Rosita

Kendall McDougall ... Alex's Father
Mike McKelly ... Stoic Psychiatrist
Sonja Pullen ... Mental Patient #3

Kate Rudd ... Cindy (as Katie Rose)
Chelsea Siemon ... Mental Patient #1
Morris Stalburg ... Cranston
Rick Steward ... Jack
Onawa Terburg ... Social Worker
Kristin Walker ... Jessica
Anthony D. Warmington ... Orderly (as Tony Warmington)
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Additional Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA


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14 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
The Dreadful., 31 July 2007
1/10
Author: blakepatrick91 from Brisbane, Australia

To start off the movie's title 'The Dread' is not captivating as it sounds like a terrible remake of a Japanese Horror. However the dingy title matches the cinematic quality as the film is utterly abysmal. With a shoestring budget that's been used depressingly bad its evident the creators of this film had no idea what they were doing; the plot, copious amount of cliché's, dreadful acting, screenplay, special effects; the whole movie is a giant train wreck that I'm surprised was ever released to DVD.

The film starts out with a wannabe opening from Halloween; homage or not it's executed in a very uninteresting way and it is almost as though the creators are trying to pass it off as their own with an alter ego addition. The story is about a child's "inner evil" that murders his parentals in their bed whilst his real body sits in front of a scratchy pictured television screen whilst playing a video game – little tension and atmosphere as it seems to be shot on someone's digital home video. A decade or so later the now grown up child is locked away in a derelict mental clinic – does this not sound familiar already? Teri, the protagonist discovers that her long lost brother is the same boy who killed his parent's year's back and she decides to see her apparent brother with her own eyes. As the night goes on in the clinic with supernaturally locked doors the film turns into a very typical, badly written and ugly acted slasher. Even if the film had been executed professionally it still would have been insanely unoriginal and mind numbingly dumb. This is Halloween with minor alterations only this time it's very hard to sit through and even see as the picture quality is so bad.

The picture quality is very terrible ranging from unintentionally too dark attics and hallways to audio that goes up and down throughout and the actors are as though they were taken from a bus stop. My drama class back in school could have done a better job at blocking and delivering lines than anyone in the film did. The only person who is acceptable is The Evil Deads cult star Ellen Sandwiess, possibly because she has about one or two lines and even then is the only actor who is mildly convincing. The special effects look like tomato sauce and water and even looked like water at times however at least the gore was there even though in an over the top fashion. Torn up torso's that look like mannequins made of foam with gore that looks like dried up PVA glue spilling from it is nonsensical. The paranormal being an element of the film is not an excuse either. It's pathetic and tries to use gore to make a scary villain which is a huge no-no. There is no budget that is an excuse for such a terrible film like this.

Absolutely everything in this film was pathetic and I am surprised I sat through its entire duration. It makes one agitated that there are people out there in the industry with real talent and well structured ideas that never get their way into film. The Dread is a bad film and this is coming from a reviewer who has intentionally seen hundreds of films with bad reputations. The dread is way at the bottom of the barrel and won't even form into a so-bad-its-good cult film. Nothing can save you from the dread of The Dread. Avoid.

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