Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 08/22/2006
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
Writer/director
Dante Tomaselli's
horror picture
Satan's Playground (2005) -- the filmmaker's third feature outing -- subverts
horror expectations and genre clichés by deliberately suspending point-by-point logical threads, carefully steering around gore, and enlisting an acting ensemble not of teenagers, but of actors who are predominantly well into middle age. The picture involves the Bruno family -- siblings
Donna (
Felissa Rose) and
Paula (
Ellen Sandweiss),
Donna's hubby,
Frank (
Salvatore Paul Piro), and autistic son,
Sean (
Danny Lopes), and newly single
Paula's baby,
Anthony -- who are en route to a vacation in the New Jersey Pine Barrens when their car gets stuck in the middle of nowhere. In an effort to solicit help, they inadvertently fall prey to a clan of white-trash, backwoods psychotics, while several are picked off, one at a time, by a strange, unknown predator from out of the night sky. Cast with veterans of the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
Evil Dead movies,
Tomaselli pays loving tribute to
slasher movies of cinema past.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide