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Horror (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 5

Fresh: 4

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Director Dante Tomaselli merges two disturbing storylines into this visually arresting chiller. The first involves a band of five teens that escape from a drug rehabilitation center to cash in on a questionable promise of salvation from... Director Dante Tomaselli merges two disturbing storylines into this visually arresting chiller. The first involves a band of five teens that escape from a drug rehabilitation center to cash in on a questionable promise of salvation from the psychopathic Reverend Salo Jr. (Vincent Lamberti). Leader of the pack Luck (Danny Lopes), fueled on major hallucinogens, transports the gang to the reverend's isolated house where the basis of the second plot has been set simultaneously.

Here lives Grace (Lizzy Mahon), Salo Jr.'s daughter, whom he and his equally bizarre wife (Christie Sanford) have enslaved through enforced drug addiction and psychic brainwashing. Grace's only salvation appears to be by the guidance of her paternal grandfather Reverend Salo Sr. (The Amazing Kreskin). But this hope is quickly jeopardized when it becomes revealed that his comforting visitations may be being made from beyond the grave.

Regardless, it is through Grace's visions involving him that she learns of her parent's demonic pastimes, which include abduction, murder, and possibly worse. Shortly after the arrival of the rehab escapees, Luck shoots and kills Salo Jr. and his wife. This eruption of bloody violence becomes the catalyst for the unleashing of dark forces. These include a torture scene in a chamber of horrors, and murderous attacks by demonic manifestation in the forms of a satanic goat and an army of zombies.

But in Tomaselli's nightmarish universe, nothing is what it seems. For by the time of the film's conclusion, the narrative is left deliberately ambiguous and capable of withstanding several interpretations - all of them darkly nihilistic, but nonetheless intriguing. -- © LD Media Corp [More]

Director: Dante Tomaselli

Director: Dante Tomaselli

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May 27, 2003

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Single Side - Single Layer
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Dante Tomaselli - Director
  • Trailers - 1. Original Trailer
  • 2. Bonus Trailer - DESECRATION
  • Featurettes - 1. Amazing Kreskin
  • 2. DESECRATION Film Clip
  • 3. Behind-the-Scenes

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This movie immerses you in a disturbingly cryptic vision of hell of earth unlike any you’ve seen before. Remember the name Dante Tomaselli: he is one of the most important new voices in horror filmmaking.

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10/19/03
Mike McGranaghan
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This movie immerses you in a disturbingly cryptic vision of hell of earth unlike any you’ve seen before. Remember the name Dante Tomaselli: he is one of the most important new voices in horror filmmaking.

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10/19/03
Mike McGranaghan
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It’s weird and non-traditional, but its also effective and scary and clearly the work of someone who knows their way around a spooky visual nightmare.

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09/13/03
Scott Weinberg
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Horror plays out quite like an episode of Freddy's Nightmares.

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01/02/03
Eric Campos
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The end result is just kind of weird and spooky, but not even a herd of ominous goats can scare the confusion out of you.

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10/15/02
Christopher Null
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