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Clive Barker’s Books of Blood is getting quite a few film treatments, with the first one already out – The Midnight Meat Train. The second is the titular short story itself – Books of Blood – which is due out sometime next year. The third was announced a while earlier – Dread. Now, it appears that the big-screen adaptation of Dread has begun filming and will hopefully be out next year.

It is being directed by Anthony Diblasi, who also penned the screenplay, and stars Jackson Rathbone, fresh off his role in Twilight, along with Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen and Laura Donnelly.

The short story focused on three college students who begin to study people’s fears, and as it progressed, one of them began to seek salvation from his obsession by exploiting the terrors of his fellow students.

Barker himself is serving as producer on the film. It will be shot for five weeks on location in London.

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STYD reports that Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) has been cast in Clive Barker’s upcoming film Dread.

In development at Matador and Essential Entertainment, the film will be adapted from Barker’s short story which tells the story of a student of philosophy who is obsessed with people’s dreads and fears. He is also engaged with his own nightmare of an axe murdering clown.

To understand more of others’ fears, he concocts a series of experiments to observe how other people react to the things that horrify them the most. While he begins to understand the fear of others, his own fear lies just beyond his control.

The film will begin shooting this October in UK.

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