Stephen and Cheryl are college students making a documentary about what people dread in life. The three set out to document people revealing their life's most terrifying moments. But Quaid quickly grows bored with mere interviews and decides to take the study to a much more visceral level, causing all three to become vulnerable as they reveal their fears in front of the camera. Just as Stephen and Cheryl realize they have partnered with a madman, they also find themselves subjects of the hideous experiment they brought to life... learning more about fear and dread than any human mind can stand. Based on short novel by master of horror, Clive Barker.