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Title: Fairly lame
Review: Rounding out this year's lineup of the After Dark Horrorfest is Dread, produced by none other than Clive Barker and adapted from his own short story as well. Twilight's Jackson Rathbone stars as a college student who partakes in the documentation and experimentation with people's fears, as convinced to do by his unhinged colleague (Shaun Evans) who has a dark and shady past. You can probably see where things end up going from here. While the atmosphere of Dread is admirable, the pacing and scares of the film are pretty much off-kilter. The actors involved don't do much to help matters here either, and as a whole, the film is fairly predictable, albeit its conclusion does come off as somewhat of a surprise. All in all, as far as Clive Barker adaptations go, you could do worse, but you could wholeheartedly also do much better as well.
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