It's Time to Talk Terror: Interview with Dante Tomaselli
By Suzanne Donahue, published Oct 19, 2006
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SUZANNE: Welcome, Dante. Let's begin at the beginning. I know director Alfred Sole (Communion) is your cousin, so you must have grown up around the horror film genre in a very tangible sense. But when did you know you wanted to make horror movies of your own? And what were your other horror-related interests as a kid (books, TV, comics, etc.)?
DANTE: Oh, Alfred Sole being my cousin was just icing on the cake. I've loved everything horror-related from the moment I was born - for as long as I can remember, really (laughs). I was obsessed with drawing and painting haunted houses, skeletons, witches, bats, vampires, ghosts... I had my room decorated like a funhouse. When you'd turn on the light switch, eyes from shrunken heads would blink red. I'd hide tape recorders with spooky sound effects in the closet. I collected masks. Every day was Halloween for me. No, wait...every moment. I even played ominous organ music. Very low synth tones, much like the soundtracks I create today.
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Resources
- Dante's Blog: www.myspace.com/horrorthemovie, Dante's Internet Movie Database Page: www.imdb.com/name/nm0866414/, The Official Horror Movie Website: www.horrorthemovie.com/, The Official Satan's Playground Movie Website: www.satansplaygroundthemovie.com/, Anchor Bay DVD Company: www.anchorbayentertainment.com
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