Horror

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Product Description Director Dante Tomaselli merges two disturbing story lines into a visually arresting chiller. At the onset, a group of teens escapes from a drug rehab center, heading toward a supposed promise of salvation at the house of a psychopathic reverend Salo, Jr. Leader of the pack, Luck, fueled by major hallucinogens, transports the gang to the reverend's isolated house where a simultaneous second plot is evolving Once there, a bizarre and disturbing series of events unfold as the teens discover that the reverend and his wife have enslaved their daughter through enforced drug addiction and psychic brainwashing. In this nightmarish universe, nothing is what it seems. The only salvation appears to be the guidance of her paternal grandfather Reverend Salo, Sr. But hope is quickly jeopardized when it is revealed that Salo, Sr's comforting visitations are from beyond the grave. Shortly after the arrival of the rehab escapees, Luck shoots and kills Salo, Jr. and his wife. This eruption of bloody violence is a catalyst for the unleashing of dark forces including torture, a chamber of horrors, and murderous attacks by a demonic satanic goat and an army of zombies. This is a nightmarish universe where nothing is what it seems. The ambiguous ending is left open for interpretation with a guarantee of being intriguing and darkly nihilistic. desertcart.com If disconnected glimpses of classic horror-movie visions were all it took, Horror would easily be counted a low-budget masterpiece. New Jersey-born filmmaker Dante Tomaselli (who certainly has a great name for a horror movie director) has obviously studied the imagery of the Bava-Argento line of Italian horror, and he's conjured some genuinely creepy sights: a black goat standing in the snow, a doll's head melting, a girl sliding silently from beneath a bed. This stuff gets under your skin, no doubt, but it would be nice if Tomaselli supplied some coherent reason to be watching all this. Girl-in-peril Lizzy Mahon is a cut above the generally awkward acting, but the top-lined performer is the Amazing Kreskin, whose kooky mentalism hugger-mugger is cleverly incorporated into his role as a faith-healing preacher. (Tomaselli has Kreskin, Ed Wood had Criswell discuss.) It doesn't really make sense, but psychotronic viewers will want to see it. --Robert Horton P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review "GOTHIC SURREALISM...HORROR CAN'T HELP BUT IMPRESS WITH ITS LUSH, UNSETTLING TEXTURAL CONFIDENCE...RICH IN ATMOSPHERE...DISTINCTLY OMINOUS..." -- Variety Magazine, March 23, 2003 Set Contains: An audio commentary from director Dante Tomaselli gives hints about what is actually going on in the movie, a "making-of" short gives a whiff of a do-it-yourself horror production (à la American Movie), and backstage footage shows Kreskin using his amazing powers of mentalism on the cast (he also recounts a meeting with Orson Welles and disparages the idea of hypnotism). Plus, there's an 11-minute sequence cut from Tomaselli's maiden effort, Desecration. --Robert Horton See more Review: Another Ace - After watching Dante Tomaselli's first movie DESECRATION, I was awe struck at the raw talent of first time producer Tomaselli. When I found out that he was releasing his second film I ordered it right away, hoping that HORROR would be half as good as DESECRATION. Tomaselli has once again proven himself a master of a compelling puzzle of psychological horror and gore. Another familiar face in HORROR is the star Danny Lopes (Bobby in Desecration). Lopes gives an amazing performance, sharpening his acting skills and drawing in the viewer. This is one of the summers hottest movies, that you will be sorry you missed. Review: Not bad for an indie... - [good things] Some things that I liked about this movie was the locaion. The location reminded me alot of Children Of The Corn meets Wendigo. The story was good, it's too bad the acting comprimised the outcome of the movie. The directing was alright, but the story made no sense. Felissa Rose has a small appearance in the movie, that was one of me main reasons for buying this. [the bad] I understand this is a very low-budget production, but the actong was horrendous. It was very hard to endure the movie in some parts because of the acting. I also didn't dig the whole goat thing either, but all in all it worked out well. The lighted jack o' lantern heads didn't make much sense, and looked quite ridiculous. The blood and gore was also lacking, but keeping the budget in mind it was pretty satisfactory. [final thoughts] I originally bought this movie after hearing about director Dante Tomaselli's other production Satan's Playground and seeing that Felissa Rose made an appearance. After watching it I am not sure how much I liked this movie. Some parts were good, and others were painful to watch. I guess that is the risk you take with inexperienced actors. I wonder how many people bought this movie for Felissa as I did. Dante is a great genre fan, and he is bringing back old genre favorite actors and putting them in his movies (much like Scott Goldberg). I'd really suggest checking this out, who knows you may really dig it.