From the Books of Blood collection
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 is producing.
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 with writer Steve Niles and artist Dan Brereton.
In the story, Quaid, a student of philosophy, 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.
Source: Ryan Rotten
