The NY Post interviewed Jackson Rathbone, after having watched his new movie “Dread” and had a “retching” response to it. They also touch on Jasper Cullen’s back story, which we cannot wait to see brought to life.

PopWrap: I’m not going to lie, this film actually made me physically ill at the end.
Jackson Rathbone: Oh, excellent. That’s what I was hoping for!

PW: When did you know “Dread” had the ability to evoke this kind of response?
Jackson: I gave the script to a friend and he said that almost made him wretch, and that’s when I knew I had to make this movie.

PW: The last 20 minutes are easily the hardest to watch, what was it like on set that day?
Jackson: Well, I like to be on set as much as possible, even if I’m not in that particular scene, I love watching. But I definitely wanted to be there that day. It was a gut-wrenching scene to watch and I thought Hanne Steen did a great job making that honest and real.

PW: What kind of affect on your performance does being on set that much have?
Jackson: I think when you enjoy the process of filmmaking, it makes the movie better because you love what you’re doing. There are a lot of dark scenes but we had such wonderful people around on set, that it created this amazing environment where we could just be honest.

PW: Any end of day rituals for releasing the tension?
Jackson: We’d always blare some crazy pop music in the makeup and hair trailers at the end of the day. Dancey, girly, Brit pop. We’d boogie down, and that would relieve some of the tension.

PW: Seems like music is a common theme on your sets — the “Twilight” cast is all pretty musical as well, right?

Continue with Jackson’s interview here.

“I think it’s a good movie for your girlfriend too (Laughs). Make her hold you close, that’s always right with a horror film.”

From MovieWeb, an interview with Jackson Rathbone about Eclipse, Dread, Last Airbender and directing! Compares Eclipse and Dread characters.

You’ve done a few horror films in the past, so what was it like to get a script for a Clive Barker adaptation? What were your original thoughts on the script when you first read it?

Jackson Rathbone: Well, before I even read it, before I even knew it was a Clive Barker adaptation, I was really excited about it. Then I read it and I was blown away, to be honest. It’s a much more humanized version of that kind of dark world that Clive is famous for creating. Once I read it, I was compelled to do the project, especially since I made a friend of mine read it, and the ending kind of made him a little bit sick, which is awesome, I think.

That’s a nice test, yeah. I really loved the whole look of the film and I read that you guys shot in Boston and in England. Can you talk a bit about some of these locations you guys found in this film, like Quaid’s house? I thought it was wonderful and added a really interesting element to the film.

Jackson Rathbone: Actually, we built that set. We had some incredible artists over there and set designers who built his house from scratch inside of a building. We were at this sort of abandoned campus. It used to be a college but it is no longer in operation. We pretty much filmed the entire movie, every scene, in different places around the campus. We were in basements if we needed it dark, we filmed the club scene there. It was pretty cool to be able to do a multi-locational film all in one place. Our production designers were able to figure it out and it was really cool, man. I was five minutes away from the set and it was no problem.

I read that you guys only had 28 days to shoot this. Was that kind of hectic at all or did it flow nicely?

Read all Jackson’s comments here

Ok, a little gross footage from the behind the scenes features on the new Dread DVD.

Jackson Rathbone eats a maggot – or does he….?

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You get to see a good bit of Jackson Rathbone in these 3 clips that were deleted from Dread, including 2 kind of close shots of him swallowing beer. For some reason, that stood out to me.

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This preview is rated R, primarily for violence.  Please respect this rating.

Dread, starring Jackson Rathbone, is based on the short story by Clive Barker.

Film Synopsis: Three college students set out to study other people’s fears. As the study progresses, one of the students, Quaid, begins to seek salvation from his obsession by exploiting the terrors of his fellow participants.

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Xavier Samuel’s Road Train

Jackson Rathbone’s Dread (Both Sources have better trailers, but I couldn’t find the embedded code for either. Sorry)

Michael Welch’s Unrequited

Nikki Reed’s Last Day of Summer

Kellan Lutz’s A Nightmare On Elm Street

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