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David Karges 2012-05-16 23:06:01

"Dread" Delivers

I remember reading this short story by Clive Barker in his "Books ofBlood" series way back when. I am always leery about a "short story"being produced into a feature-length film (ie Children of the Corn, TheBox etc. etc.) However... Wow. This movie rocks. Never a dull moment.Taut. Suspenseful. Gory. All of the gruesome ingredients for appealingscare-fare. And in terms of the film stock they used for that stark,contrasty noir feel minus the B&W, KUDOS. The last sequence was sohorrific and memorable but because I don't believe in spoilers, you'llhave to see it to "feel it". I felt it. The fear. The anxiety. Theuncertainty. And ultimately... the dread. You will feel it too.

2012-05-16 18:28:08

dread? not the short story...

Ok How many people read the short story from Clive Barker? Well I can tell you straight up the differences as I've just finished reading the story. There's no girl with a huge birthmark in it, no third unknown character that gets his eardrums exploded and a few other descrepancies oh and the psychopath actually gets what's coming to him.This movie is nothing like the short story expect it's got Clive's name on it. Otherwise seriously read the short story. I found it a lot better then this movie.

2012-05-07 13:57:37

DREADHEADS

The After Dark Horrorfest IV has really been disappointing this year. DREAD is certainly gory and at times downright disgusting, but in spite of all its moralizing about our hidden fears and "facing the beast", it's ultimately a victim of its own self-indulgence.TWILIGHT's Jackson Rathbone does give a good performance, probably outshining most of his more well known TWILIGHTERS and Shaun Davis is frightening as the demented Quade; all the acting is good, but lost in the movie's self explosive script. Few Clive Barker transitions to screen have impressed me and this one is no different. I may avoid Horrorfest V if this year's crop is any indication.

Kellie Stewart 2012-05-06 18:53:42

What do you dread?

I dread stories that are not interpreted well into movies. This moviehad potential, but the crazy guy was a flat character. He had troubleexpressing the right emotions. Jackson Rathbone was great, the rest ofthe cast was great, but the movie fell flat due to a poorly acted maincharacter. As a project for school, Jackson Rathbone's character isgiven the idea to set up a study to see what peoples worst experiencesare and the inherent fear that comes from that. Many volunteers comefor the study and sit in front of the camera to share theirexperiences. As this progresses, the main players in the movie do thesame and we find that they have been had experiences that would makeone have specific fears about things. As the study goes on, the guy whoconceived the idea with Rathbones character starts to get stranger andthis cases Rathbone to pull away from the project. If that characterhad been better portrayed, I might have liked this movie more. The girlwith the birthmark was beautiful even with her birthmark btw.

Prolox 2012-05-01 23:02:28

One of Barker's best!

After seeing his parents brutally axed to death by a maniac, when hewas six years old, a college student & his friends decide to make adocumentary, where people come in to sit in front of the camera, totalk of their fears. But soon his obsession with his horrifying pastmemories, his constant nightmares, & hallucinations, coupled with hisobsessions of his subjects fears, causes him to go off the deep end &soon he decides to take his obsessions further, even if it does lead toa murder or two. DREAD is by far one of the best psychological horrorthrillers to come out in many a year! The film is very well acted &directed, has a slow, but still very engaging pace, some gross outmoments, a few bloody kills (though the body count remains small) & thecharacters are very interesting. Barker is a good writer & allows theaudience to get drawn into his story. The film might be a littleunsettling to the non horror fan, but fans of Barker's other works (Hismediocre NIGHT BREED, BOOK OF BLOOD & the truly awful TRANSMUTATIONSnotwithstanding) should find plenty to like. There's many suspensefulmoments & a rather interesting, but disturbing ending makes this anunforgettable & highly enjoyable horror item. Highly recommended! **** stars

2012-05-01 00:31:47

dread horrorfest review

This review is from: Dread (After Dark Horrorfest 4) (DVD) i am happy with amazon.com, merchandise arrived on time and in perfect unopened condition. the movie was not really a scary movie as i thought, instead it is more of a phsyco-thriller, but still over all it kept my interest and i liked it, i'd definitely watch it again.

2012-04-28 22:57:24

Time to Give up on Mr. Barker's Visions

Once upon a time I was a fan of Clive Barker. His short stories and his novels were some of the best horror/fantastique fiction there could ever be placed in the market. As were the Barker movies. Somehow though, maybe just as it has now been shown to be impossible for Mr. Barker to produce the badly needed new novels, so too is it impossible for a movie to be made that lives up to Clive Barker's original imagination. Just as I wish Mr. Barker would be able to finally bring to conclusion stories like The Art and Galilee, so too have I wanted a good, mind twisting, with its share of blood and guts, Barker horror movie. Make note, of course I hated "Book of Blood" the movie. Long. Tedious. Tiresome. There was no fear involved in that movie. It was, all in all, a very, very bad movie that had Mr. Barker's name bound to it. I was wary that anything good could come next after such a bad movie. Such a pathetic attempt at a Barker story. I found something horrifying. Just as "Book of Blood" was terrible, so too is "Dread," and this truly horrifies me. Of course, at first, I had high hopes that such a wonderful psychological exploration would be brought to the screen. "Dread" has always called out as one of the better twisting of the mind stories that only Clive Barker could give his fans. Ergo, the tantalizing tastes given by the various horror magazines propelled me to want to watch this movie with horrific fascination. My hopes were dashed. Crushed. Obliterated. The original short story was an excellent piece of horror that dealt with three main characters: the protagonist, the antagonist, and Dread itself. Here we find meaningless characters thrown into the fray. Not to help develop the storyline, but just for the sake of pushing the minutes in order to get as close to a movie length story as possible. By the time you reach the conclusion of the story, I wanted to hit my head against the wall. I could only find myself horrified that such a masterful short story was destroyed. It was as if the creative vision of the original piece was slit open and all its harsh innards disgarded. The only thing that made this a Clive Barker movie was that his name was stitched to the movie. Nothing here was classic Barker. Thank God I didn't buy this, I just rented it from the local video store.Maybe fans of Clive Barker should finally realize that his "time" is now gone. I hate saying that. I want so much to find new avenues of hell that only the mind of Mr. Barker could help to reveal. I want so much to finally see his works given the justice that they should be given, the glory that they should reveal. I wont ever see this in the movies. Though I keep such wonderful works as "Hellraiser I and II" and "Candyman" on my shelf, given the respect that they should be given. Alas, those are works of the past. We must admit that we will not see conclusions to his novel worlds on the printed page and that we will never see really good future interpretations of his works in the movies. All we will get are scattered pieces of flesh, tattered, withered, and worthlessly cascading across the floor...blown by the wind of what could have been, trampled by people in the movie industry that only want to make a few dollars. With tears in the eye, we should only look away...

2012-04-28 16:54:17

Fear Does Strange Things to the Mind

While the nature of God, and the possibility of eternal life go undiscussed, we happily chew over the minutiae of misery.- An excerpt from "Dread," a short story by Clive BarkerI think I know what Barker was onto here: We're surrounded and even entertained by the suffering of others, and as such, we use it as a way to understand our own fears. It's not a very pleasant point, but at the very least, a point is being made. I suspect the film adaptation will be regarded in much the same way, hailed as a horror movie that, under the guise of violence and gore, aims to send a socially relevant message. You'll forgive me if I don't see it the same way you do. Has anyone ever stopped to consider the idea that some horror movies aren't a commentary on anything? And that those pretending to be are genuinely awful? Because writer/director Anthony DiBlasi has deluded himself into believing he was actually making a point, "Dread" is not merely bad, it's deplorable.The story centers on a mysterious college student known only as Quaid (Shaun Evans), who, because of a trauma he experienced as a six-year-old, has an unhealthy fixation on what people dread. He crosses paths with film major Stephan Grace (Jackson Rathbone), and the two join forces for a student project documenting people and what it is they fear most. For Quaid, interviews in front of a camera aren't enough; he wants to expose the fear itself, to force people into compromising and even dangerous situations and study the results. Maybe "study" is the wrong word - for him, fear is not an indulgence so much as an addiction, like heroin. By the end of the film, he has grown so dependent on it that his actions become downright sadistic.Not that he had all that far to go. From the moment he's introduced, it's obvious that he's stark raving mad. What I don't understand is why Stephan didn't catch onto this much sooner. Wouldn't you be worried if the line, "If you don't go out and find the beast, sooner or later the beast will come and find you," came up in your very first conversation? No? Then how about, "What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you?" You'd think the appropriate response would be, "I don't know you," but then again, horror movies operate under a very different set of rules. Stephan, to be sure, is able to answer Quaid's question. So is Stephan's classmate, Cheryl Fromm (Hanne Steen), who also finds herself in the film project. Let's just say that, before long, she's forced to face her fears, and believe me, it isn't pretty.One of the oddest subplots involves Stephan's friend, Abby (Laura Donnelly), who has a birthmark covering the entire right side of her body. She volunteers to be interviewed for the film, apparently unmindful of the fact that, when your appearance is involved, it's not a matter of dread but of self esteem. So what possible interest would Quaid have in her? Given his painful past, given the painful pasts of Stephan and Cheryl, given what Quaid hopes to do by exposing that pain, I fail to see how he can make a connection to self conscious behavior.Inevitable comparisons will be made between "Dread" and the "Saw" films, since both are about madmen placing their victims in terrible situations. I'm no fan of "Saw" or its sequels, but at least I can watch them and understand what motivates John Kramer/Jigsaw. I can't say the same thing about Quaid - I have no idea why he does what he does. With no rational driving force, with no clear sense of purpose, he comes off as nothing more than a deranged lunatic who seems to enjoy ranting philosophic psychobabble. His actions can't be justified. His methods can't be condoned. There's nothing about this character that can be explained logically. The fact that he's portrayed as being somehow insightful boggles the mind.I suspect my animosity will not be shared by others. Many will think "Dread" is an intelligent, realistic thriller that skillfully examines society's obsession with fear and suffering. Maybe so, if we're talking about the original Clive Barker story, which is itself problematic. But there's no reasonable way to defend the movie. It's cruel and pretentious, made to seem like it's saying something when in fact it's saying nothing at all. There's no better proof of this than the film's final scene, intended as a display of Quaid's madness but delivering as a cheap horror movie gimmick. Nothing had been building to this moment. It doesn't reveal anything about fear or human nature. When an ending is allowed to go in a direction completely different from the beginning and middle, you don't have a movie so much as an exercise in pointlessness.

Dagon 2012-04-22 21:13:27

From the Mind of Clive Barker....

Dread is taken from a story that was originally published in the mid-80's from volume 2 of Clive Barker's Book of Blood. The story concernsa group of college students who decide to embark on a psychologicalstudy of an individual's fear and how certain defense mechanismsdevelop. Jackson Rathbone plays the lead character in this twistedaffair - he is most recognizable as Jasper in the Twilight series.Although associated with that GQ image of sparkling vampires, Rathbonedives into the role of a student who's placed in a difficult situationthat helps shape Barker's usual sinister outcome.This film does not execute much in the way of gore...it taps more intothe human psyche. The tension is built upon slowly, maybe even tooslowly, but eventually gains enough momentum to exist as a tangibleforce - it is through this process that one realizes Barker's genius.The film's director, Anthony DiBlasi, made his debut with thisfilm...he has prior experience as an executive producer for anotherClive Barker inspired film, The Midnight Meat Train which was releasedin 2008. Clive Barker did produce Dread but when is he going to returnto the director's chair? He hasn't directed a film since 1995's Lord ofIllusions! We want Clive back!

Jay Harris 2012-04-22 14:29:16

This is from a short story by CLIVE BARKER ,That is enough reason to see it.

Clive Barker is a master at writing clever, gore filled horrormovies.The screenplay & direction for DREAD is by Anthony DiBlasi,The small cast by newcomers to film is headed by Jackson Rathbone, &Shaun Evans; Both are very capable &make you pay attention. The arevery ably assisted by Hanne Steen & Laura Donnelly. Jonathan Reardonrounds out this cast. Each one has a dread of his own.It is bloody & at times typically supposedly scary. The cinematographyis properly dark & moody,but at all times viewable.I did not expect a great film BUT wound up quite pleased at what I saw.This had no theatrical release, It did play at various horror filmfestivals.I rarely give a no-name cast horror films a much higher rating.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 66 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)

2012-04-21 22:09:41

Dreadful, and that's a good thing

I'm kind of sorry I saw Dread.Mind you, this isn't a bad thing. Dread is nasty. Not in the way Autopsy or Wrong Turn 2 is nasty - it's awful in that you witness things you wished you hadn't and then have difficulty forgetting them.Dread also has the pedigree of being yet another short story from Clive Barker's Book of Blood series. The guy has talent, I'll give him that.Dread is deceptive in its presentation. It has a pretty-boy lead that you want to punch in the face (Jackson Rathbone), a blonde smirking psychopath that you love to hate (Shaun Evans), and a messy goth girl who is conflicted (Hanne Steen). It's easy to dismiss everyone as being a self-absorbed jerk that deserves whatever happens to them. And what happens to them is a social experiment in divulging students' worst fears - fears that ultimately reveal the trio's dark secrets. By the second half of the film we have a host of willing dupes who have shared their secret terrors a little too openly. Writer and director Anthony DiBlasi knows all about the Facebook generation and shows how they exchange privacy for vulnerability. In the hands of a psychopath like Quaid (Evans) this is a very, very bad idea.After the moping and the blue lens and the Generation Now rock music, Dread finally gets down to business. Quaid, who witnessed his parents murdered by a serial killer, has some issues to work out and he prefers to use people as his therapy. He mentally tortures everyone: the vegetarian abused by her father, the pretty boy who lost his brother to a car accident, the hot chick with birth marks all over her body, and the kid terrified of going deaf. No one is safe.Mental torture on screen is a tricky thing, but DiBlasi handles it with aplomb, tearing away layer after layer until he gets to the raw core of Quaid's victims. You're bound to identify with one of them, and that's when Dread hits a nerve.SPOILERS: By far the best scene is the fear of deafness. This is a fear that can be viscerally experienced through cinematography. The victim, reduced to begging for his mother, is heart-wrenching. It is topped only by the slow erosion of the vegetarian's will as she is left with nothing but a rotting piece of meat as a meal. Time lapse photography tells the story.Dread builds its namesake slowly, deliberately, and meticulously. Its only at the gut punch ending do we comprehend that the pace was intentional, the irritating navel-gazing a necessity, the self-absorption a critical part of how the victims are torn screaming out of their little bubbles of sanity. Dread isn't perfect, but it's dreadful enough to earn a proud place next to any of Barker's supernaturally-themed works.

Claudio Carvalho 2012-04-21 15:22:22

Fear Research

The outcast cinema student Stephen Grace (Jackson Rathbone) does notdrive cars due to the trauma of losing his brother in a car accident.When he meets the lonely Quaid (Shaun Evans), who has dreadfulnightmares and daydreams with the death of his parents that wereslaughtered by a unknown man with his father's ax when he was a sixyear-old boy, they befriend each other and Quaid proposes a researchabout the innermost fear that each individual has. Stephen sees thechance of developing an original thesis for the college and invites hisfriend Cheryl Fromm (Hanne Steen) to work with them in the interviewand in the edition. Among the interviewees, Stephen talks to hiscolleague Abby (Laura Donnelly) that works with him in the library andhas a great complex due to the large mole she has in her face and body.When the work is almost ready, Quaid has an outburst against oneinterviewee that is providing fake information and destroys the cameraand edition equipment; however, he sends one copy to the college andStephen succeeds in his project. Then the disturbed Quaid meets Stephenagain and the student sees that his friend is actually beginning hispersonal fear research driving people to the edge."Dread" is a gruesome horror movie surprisingly great, with anexcellent development of the four lead characters – Stephen, Quaid,Cheryl and Abby. The beginning is disclosed in slow pace and the lastpart is horrific; I almost vomited with the scene of Cherryl and therotten steak. My only remark in this story is the complete absence ofpolice after the disappearance of people and discovery of the harmedteenagers. The unexpected gloomy conclusion is one of the best I haverecently seen in a horror movie. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Lentes do Mal" ("Lens of the Evil")

Dylan Bye 2012-04-17 20:12:16

Intellectually comforting, psychologically disorientating

Taking a glance at the cover in the video store, I almost arrogantlyassumed it would be a terrible slasher flick, due to it's title and thelack of pictures, and also due to the fact that it went out of it's wayto mention that Jackson Rathbone, "Star of the Twilight Saga", was inthis film. I felt a little uncomfortable until I glanced a bit longerand noticed that it was "From the mind of Clive Barker". But alas, thisis a review of it's content and not it's cover.I'm glad I did pick it up however because it turned out to be a decentpsychological thriller, more so than it was a horror film. Thecharacters are convincing, in particular Quaid, the protagonist badguy, who we feel isn't all right from the very beginning of the film. Ifeel as if I was led to question whether the motives of Quaid wereinherently bad or environmental, due to a childhood of significantpsychological torment. When an audience is opened up to the possibilityof these influences, immediately it changes from a horror film to anintellectual psychological thriller, that borders existentialexploration of the human psyche. I couldn't help but feel as if somescenes of the film kind of reminded me of Fight Club, as Quaidattempted to groom Stephen in to his mode of thinking, but unlike FightClub, this was unsuccessful and we saw the further polarisation of thecharacters involved in the college project from Quaid.All in all, Dread is a film which won't cater to your grisly, sleazygore driven desires, mostly due to the fact that a lot of the gore ispaced out through the film and used tactically in order to keep itrelative to the conceptual element of the film, and also to keep thesuspense. For those who enjoy psychological thrillers, collegesociopathic sadists and existentially driven plots, will enjoy Dread.Fans of Clive Barker can rest assured that Anthony DiBlasi haseffectively captured Clive Barker's depiction of the story and doesn'tbuck to the sleazy needs of Hollywood gore and torture-without-reasonfilms (Saw) and manages to effectively convey the terror, torment anddisorientation of Dread.

2012-04-17 12:16:05

Very Creepy Indeed!

Taking a peek at the reviews of "Dread" was certainly a mixed bag of tricks. It was picked and panned in equal measure. Entering the world of "Dread" with an open mind will yield a film that is at once interesting and horrifying in the end result. It contains a more than fair portion of gore effects, heart felt acting from mostly unknown actors, a slightly changed storyline from the short story by Clive Barker, and high end psychological horror. Those who panned the film probably were expecting "Hellraiser" or something of that caliber. Perhaps "A" list horror was the expectation and low budget was the disappointing result. Dread does not have the startling moments that is standard fair for horror films. It does not have a loud booming sound while a creature jumps into the face of the audience. What sets this film apart from others is the scripting. The story's suggestion that everyone has certain fears and may benefit from trying to face them is somewhat unique, and the actors certainly do a good job of fleshing out that which, in the end, is very unpleasant and disturbing.Being that the goal of horror is to create discomfort in the viewer, or reader, "Dread" succeeds on all counts. It is not "Friday the Thirteenth" or "Halloween." It is a think firm, thus the pacing will have a slow build up to allow the viewers to buy in to each carnivorous concept. Thus, this Clive Barker story adaptation does rate among one of the best.

Boba_Fett1138 2012-04-17 14:43:42

Nicely put together film.

This movie was a real positive surprise. It felt both original and welldone. Simply a real good movie to watch.It's perhaps hard to place this movie in any particular genre.Psychological-horror would be the best way to describe this movie. Itplays on the deep rooted fears of people but please don't expect fromthis movie to give you plenty of scare moments, or anything of thatsort. It's not really an horror in the classic most common sense of theword. The drama plays an important part as well, which only strengthensthe movie its psychological-horror aspects. In that regard alone thismovie already works out as an original and interesting one.But above all things, it's also a really well done film. It has a goodbuild up and narrative, some fine actors and the movie has a good lookover it as well. It's not a big budget movie that had a big cinematicrelease anywhere but you can't really tell that, judging by the movieits looks or just overall greatness. Actually hard to believe that thiswas the first ever movie for director Anthony DiBlasi, who was alsorumored to direct the new Hellraiser movie for a while. He would hadcertainly been capable of it and he had worked with Clive Barker, thecreator of the Hellraiser franchise, before, which was on this movieactually, that got based on a short story by Clive Barker. His approachof the horror and more serious story aspects, which he shows that he iscapable off with this movie, would had been great for a new Hellraisermovie.The movie has a story that steadily but slowly progresses. Yet themovie becomes never a boring or dragging one because it is capable ofgetting you involved with the characters and their stories. It's a realintriguing movie to watch and because it's being so original, you alsocan't really predict all the time what is going to happen next in it.No, not everything works convincing or works out as strong andeffective as it could had but still this movie feels like a breath afresh air and is perfectly watchable.A nice, original, well done little film.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

thewonderdude 2012-04-17 06:21:14

Utterly readable and boring movie.

I for one, came to see this as a horror movie yet what i got was aB-rated very standard horror like movie which i feel sad about spendingaround 2 hours of my life. You will immediately understand the concept in 10 minutes, and the rest1 hour and something will be waiting for it to happen. Even the sheerstraight-line story of Saw 6 is better and this movie lacks the gore.The book may be an interesting read while traveling on a bus back homebut then again you can't throw away the movie aside because its bad.You have to sit through whole of it.I have registered just for this movie and my first review is forpreventing people who are not dragged on by a friend/relative fromwatching this movie.Move along folks, nothing to see here.

elliott78212 2012-04-13 17:18:18

Horror at its Best

Proof you can make a tense, riveting film on a shoestring and areminder that Clive Barker is a great horror writer. Solidperformances, well paced, often shocking and truly frightening completewith haunting imagery. Executive Producer Anthony DiBlasi who worked onthe last few Barker films shows real skill as he steps into thewriter/director chair and love of the material as he deftly handles itall making this one of my favorites. A movie built on developing thecharacters, that makes you care about them and what happens to them isa rare thing, solid performances from the main characters come togetherto make this one of the best horror films of 2009. Make it a marathonand watch the other films produced by DiBlasi and Barker Midnight MeatTrain, and Book of Blood together exemplify of what can be done when awriter and filmmaker work together to bring more literal translationsof the original work to the screen unlike so many book adaptationswho's films barely resemble the novels.

mouse64068 2012-04-13 08:44:28

Not your average horror flick.

Having watched around 600 horror and thriller movies over the course ofthe last 20 years. I have rarely come across a horror flick that hasthe intellectual prowess of "Dread". This is a very well doneadaptation of Barkers short story, and has kept the dark and ominousfeel of the original.The cinematography is masterfully done while keeping an almost homemovie feel. The flickering lights and dark sets lend an eerilydreamlike feel to the bulk of the movie so that when the brighterscenes appear the contrast is quite stark.To say this movie isdisturbing would be an understatement. The decent into madness depictedhere is powerfully dramatic and quite intense. Not only is thereviolence, gore, and blood, but a realistic view of trauma inflictedpsychosis becoming complete madness.The bottom line is this. The ability to suspend disbelief is thecornerstone of any good story and this one delivers in buckets.

thom-gillespie 2012-04-12 21:54:52

Veneer, polish, shine but absolutely nothing beneath the surface

Starting out with Goth, shadows, back-lit silhouettes, lots of them tothe point I started to develop a head ache and all I wanted to do wasfind a way to up the contrast and add a little brightness just to thescreen mind you; it was obvious from the start that there would be nobrightness to the story or the tone. The goal was to frighten the crapout of the viewer but since the movie commits the Cardinal Sin ofhorror by showing the monster or the monstrosities very early on, therewas absolutely no way to top the opening gore. Think Saw, Hostel, typical torture porn made all the more torturouswith freshman level 6 Buds and a Bong philosophizing about touching TheBeast, Dread If you can't pirate this movie do not spend money on it.

Globe Trotter 2012-04-12 05:00:22

Haunts your Mind!

This is a dark movie which is not usually found in today's movieindustry.The movie actually plays with your mind a lot.The gore and thegross factor is very subtle in this movie.The director cum writerAnthony has done a great job with the plot.The director has fabricatedthe story around the main core which is fear.The first half of the movie involves careful building up of charactersand the next half involves the actual story plot.And to my surprise inever felt bored or never even checked my watch not even once duringthe movie.A different, applaud-able piece of work among the generic,boring, nauseating, crappy, senseless horror movies of thisgeneration.Whether you are a horror fan or not,i would say it a movieworth spending your time to watch it.Finally i had to to admit thatthis movie gave me a psychological aftermath for few days,which isreally really hard for an movie to have that impact.IF YOU ARE PERSON IN A DOUBLE MIND ON WHETHER TO WATCH IT OR NOT LIKE IWAS BEFORE WATCHING IT,I WOULD SAY DON'T MISS IT. REVIEW IN A LINE: One of the kind movie which stands tall from rest ofthe generic horror WHICH IS WORTH WATCHING.