Clive Barker's Dread

[Galactus]

Breaking News: Barker's Dread Coming to the Screen
Source:Ryan Rotten April 26, 2008


Clive Barker revealed at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors today that writer-director Anthony DiBlasi will tackle Dread, a short story originating in Barker's Books of Blood. Casting has begun with prep beginning in June. Seraphim Films will produce.

Dread was once kicked around at 20th Century Fox, however, the studio is no longer involved in the property. Eclipse adapted Barker's story for the comic book medium in the '90s.

 

[Gotham]

Could be an interesting film.

 

[tzarinna]

Great story that will be compared to death with Saw, I'm sure of it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=7883

Barker's Dread Captures Twilight Co-Star
Source:ShockTillYouDrop.com
September 26, 2008


Jackson Rathbone has been cast in Clive Barker's Dread, an adaptation written and directed by Anthony DiBlasi. Rathbone - who plays Jasper in the Twilight film - will play a leading role.

A co-production of Matador and Essential Entertainment, the story tells of Quaid, a student of philosophy, who is obsessed by his own nightmare of an ax-murdering clown so he concocts a series of experiments to observe firsthand how other people react to the things that most horrify them. But while Quaid slowly unpeels the psyches of his imprisoned and tortured captives like a reeking onion, his own dread waits, just beyond his control.

Principal photography begins this October

 

[cryptic name]

it'll be tough to escape the saw comparisons, but if they stick close to the story then it should be all good

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

Sounds pretty interesting. I kind of see some comparisons with Saw but not overly so.

 

[Galactus]

EXCL: Quaid Cast in Clive Barker's Dread
Source:Ryan Rotten, Managing Editor October 10, 2008


Shaun Evans is poised to play a pivotal part in Clive Barker's Dread. ShockTillYouDrop.com learned he'll star as Quaid, a philosophy student interested in observing firsthand how people react to the things that horrify them. It wouldn't be a horror story if Quaid's experiment didn't turn around to bite him in the ass. And it does.

The 28-year-old Evans has also starred in Being Julia, starring Annette Bening, and Boy A. In his latest film he's joining previously announced leading man Jackson Rathbone (Twilight).

Dread is based on the Barker story of the same name which appeared in the author's Books of Blood collection. Writer-director Anthony DiBlasi will adapt for producers Matador and Essential Entertainment.

Principal photography begins this month in England.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/afmnews.php?id=8360

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

Oh wow is that the official poster?

 

[Hunter Rider]

It's the first teaser poster I think.

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

Looks good

 

[tzarinna]

http://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel23.html

Clive's take on the Saw vs Dread

Revelations : "You’re not going to be able to avoid the lazy comparison with Saw. How do you plan to approach that?"

Clive Barker : "Well, I think it’s a completely different thesis. Firstly, of course, we came twenty years earlier! I just have to say that for the record! But yes, you’re absolutely right. Saw’s thesis is a very different one, however. Firstly, it’s a revenge thesis. Secondly, Quaid is essentially researching fear, he’s researching the nature of dread and Jigsaw in Saw is not interested in that, he’s interested in watching people break down. He’s interested in watching the test - testing their ingenuity, if you will, when there’s a bomb attached to their testicles. And that’s a very different idea. I’d be surprised if the writers of Saw hadn’t read Dread, but who am I to know..? And the tone - I’ll give you an example. One of the memorable things for many people in Dread is the meat, you know the girl who will not eat meat being left with a piece of meat which is slowly decaying and becomes more repulsive. As the days go by and as she becomes more desperate you know her chance of being nourished by it becomes more disgusting – that isn’t the stuff of Saw. I don’t know what Saw would do in place of that - probably something like put a bomb in the food or something. But this is much more about that, I’d like to think that Dread is an Dread - John Bolton. elegant movie about terror and in times it will be brutal and, of course, it’s rooted in things that are very close to me: I went deaf for a period in my life and I know what that terror’s like and I am disgusted by certain kinds of meat, to the point where I’d actually throw up at the sight of it."