Three college students team up to conduct a study on fear for their school project. They interview people in an old, abandoned-looking house and prod them about traumatic experiences from their past. As their research goes on, the one guy starts becoming obsessed with physically exposing people to their deepest, most severe fears due to ongoing nightmares of his own childhood anguish...
"Dread" is more of a character-driven 'psychodrama' than really a straight-forward 'horror' flick, or at least, that's what I got out of it. The overall tone is nicely bleak - which I would expect nothing less from something based on a piece of Clive Barker literature - and it's quite well shot for the most part. It IS kind of slow in much of the lead-up, but the final 30 minutes are pretty gripping as it all comes together in a rather strange, mean-spirited way. It's also got a stylishly shot axe murder scene that is rewind worthy. Could've used a little "tightening" as far as the script goes, since it DOES tend to drag a bit at times, but "Dread" is still an enjoyably dark film, overall.
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