This little film is meant to be done well, I think, with the small budget it had - I suppose. If it was stand alone movie, not based on a popular work of fiction of a popular writer/director, it would be OK, maybe. Yet considering all this and comparing it to original story it fails terribly. OK, I agree, that a motion picture should not necessarily follow to what is written in the story, and sometimes it makes it even better if movie differs from the original story or has a unexpected twist at the ending, yet this is not the case, in my opinion, this time I must disagree, because this movie, in my humble opinion, messed up the story, the idea and the most important - the build up of the story.
Yes it is watchable at the start, but close to the half of the film, at least the fans of the original story, like me, will slowly start to get pi**ed off, and in the end, at least for me, it becomes just another teenage slasher movie.
I am a very big fan of Clive Barker, and I think that "Dread" is one of his best works. And in my eyes this movie does not do justice to his original story.
Maybe it's because I had such a high hopes for it because at least from the first two volumes of "Books Of Blood" this was the only psychological thriller/horror, not just slasher.
Yet it is only my opinion (and yes I like C.B., I like low budget films, and I like horror films (especially early Italian classics)), but this movie disappointed me greatly (even more than "Hellraiser: Hellworld") and made even "Midnight Meat Train" look like some Oscar contender.
A couple of stars for young actors and to the filmmakers that tried. But Failed (in my eyes).
Still I am eagerly awaiting for the next adaption from the "Books Of Blood" and hope it will do better
Yes it is watchable at the start, but close to the half of the film, at least the fans of the original story, like me, will slowly start to get pi**ed off, and in the end, at least for me, it becomes just another teenage slasher movie.
I am a very big fan of Clive Barker, and I think that "Dread" is one of his best works. And in my eyes this movie does not do justice to his original story.
Maybe it's because I had such a high hopes for it because at least from the first two volumes of "Books Of Blood" this was the only psychological thriller/horror, not just slasher.
Yet it is only my opinion (and yes I like C.B., I like low budget films, and I like horror films (especially early Italian classics)), but this movie disappointed me greatly (even more than "Hellraiser: Hellworld") and made even "Midnight Meat Train" look like some Oscar contender.
A couple of stars for young actors and to the filmmakers that tried. But Failed (in my eyes).
Still I am eagerly awaiting for the next adaption from the "Books Of Blood" and hope it will do better