Clive Barker's DREAD Hitting Theaters
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Thursday, May 01, 2008
Mania was on hand at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors event this past week, where author Clive Barker revealed that yet another of his short stories is getting the big screen treatment very soon. According to the author, Dread, which first hit book stores in 1984 as the opening of his Books of Blood anthology series. Other recent adaptations are Midnight Meat Train and The Book of Blood productions currently scheduled for theaters in the near future.
Plot Concept: The story centers around Quaid, a philosopher so obsessed with the concept of fear that he decides to perform a series of experiments on unwilling subjects to better understand how it affects us.
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c'mon Clive, take me back to Midian...please!