The general description(s) of this movie sounded interesting, so I decided to give it a try, especially since the theme of the movie - fear, anxiety, dread - is something that concerns everybody. But I was extremely disappointed and had the feeling afterwards that I wasted two hours of my life on this bad thing. What especially annoyed me about this movie were three things: a) The verbal contents: what first seemed to having a good start – some smart phrases about fear and our human relation to it – did not go much further and remained, all in all, at the surface of this theme. Shallow, I would say. b) The gore stuff: there is some needless display of extreme violence, which could have been easily avoided, contributing by avoidance to the atmosphere of this movie. But by displaying senseless moments of blood-happy gore-feast the movie lost much if not all. c) The overall meaningfulness as dimension of a movie in this one is quite low. It appears to be just another splatter-ridden trash movie, "enriched" with some common phrases about fear, anxiety or dread. In my mind this movie is almost totally meaningless. So what is the point of this movie, if there is one at all, and what was the point of making it? My impression was, that someone turned-on by pointless violence has lived-out once again his own lecherousness about human suffering. I presume that already the producers must be persons who love to see other human beings tortured, which speaks for the sado-masochistic basic trend or underlying core-current of this movie. If someone never thought deeper than the common surface of fear, anxiety or dread he might find the shallow words put into this film maybe interesting, which rather serve as disguise for the real motives or justification for making the movie. And if someone also loves bloody gore, senseless violence and humans being tormented and tortured by other human beings, then he might actually like this movie. Since I am though neither sadistic nor masochistic, I truly disliked and despise this movie. We all know already what humans can do to fellow human beings. We don't need to watch it over and over again.
Review of Dread
