
Kill Theory(2009)
While celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.


“Your Time Will Come.”
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

Jackson Rathbone
Stephen Grace

Shaun Evans
Quaid

Hanne Steen
Cheryl Fromm

Laura Donnelly
Abby

Jonathan Readwin
Joshua Shaw

Vivian Gray
Tabitha Swan
Carl McCrystal
Axe Man
Steven Clarke
Bruno
Adam Davenport
Alex Hustler

Elissa Dowling
Tamsin Kendall
Dread is a horror, drama, thriller film released in 2009 exploring themes of experiment, primal fear, nightmare, psychopath, torture, fear. Directed by Anthony DiBlasi, it stars Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen. Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
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