If this is any indication of the way the fourth After Dark Horrorfest is going to go, then it would be a good job to skip the whole thing. I am not particularly positive but this may be the absolute first time I have ever given a film the lowest grade possible on IMDb. Avoid paying for this film. If you feel you have to see it, find some way to do it for free.
There is really no saving grace for this movie. It starts off very slow. It comes up with an interesting concept. It executes that concept extremely poorly. It ends stupidly.
The idea of doing a study about fear in the way Kinsey studied sex is actually an interesting concept. However, it isn't interesting the way this movie decides to go about it. The interviews the characters do for the movie are boring and give nothing more to the movie.
The relationships seem forced between the characters, as well. There is no reason to think Stephen and Quaid would be friends and there is less reason to think they would remain friends with the awkward way their friendship progresses. Stephen and Cheryl (I hope I am spelling her name right but I don't care enough to check) have a romance which actually surprises me when it comes to light because there was no indication that it was going to develop.
Quaid falling off the deep end is not a shock. In fact, when it happens, the viewer will welcome it because the movie is so abysmally boring up until it happens. However, after it happens, it doesn't get better.
"Dread" ends up being yet another film where nothing good comes out of it. The ending is pretty sick (including Cheryl in both rooms she gets trapped in) and depressing. Not to mention, it's not particularly realistic either. If Cheryl had been gone for so long, their would be people looking for her and they would definitely have gone to the house of someone she recently was making a film with.
It's sad when you hope a movie that takes itself seriously ends with the original ax murderer coming back and taking everyone out. But, the people in this movie are just confused or stupid. "Dread" was a total waste of time and money and so far the worst of the After Dark Horror Fest movies I have seen from all four years.
There is really no saving grace for this movie. It starts off very slow. It comes up with an interesting concept. It executes that concept extremely poorly. It ends stupidly.
The idea of doing a study about fear in the way Kinsey studied sex is actually an interesting concept. However, it isn't interesting the way this movie decides to go about it. The interviews the characters do for the movie are boring and give nothing more to the movie.
The relationships seem forced between the characters, as well. There is no reason to think Stephen and Quaid would be friends and there is less reason to think they would remain friends with the awkward way their friendship progresses. Stephen and Cheryl (I hope I am spelling her name right but I don't care enough to check) have a romance which actually surprises me when it comes to light because there was no indication that it was going to develop.
Quaid falling off the deep end is not a shock. In fact, when it happens, the viewer will welcome it because the movie is so abysmally boring up until it happens. However, after it happens, it doesn't get better.
"Dread" ends up being yet another film where nothing good comes out of it. The ending is pretty sick (including Cheryl in both rooms she gets trapped in) and depressing. Not to mention, it's not particularly realistic either. If Cheryl had been gone for so long, their would be people looking for her and they would definitely have gone to the house of someone she recently was making a film with.
It's sad when you hope a movie that takes itself seriously ends with the original ax murderer coming back and taking everyone out. But, the people in this movie are just confused or stupid. "Dread" was a total waste of time and money and so far the worst of the After Dark Horror Fest movies I have seen from all four years.