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

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Cast:
Felissa Rose - Donna Bruno
Ellen Sandweiss - Paula
Irma St. Paule - Mrs. Leeds
Danny Lopes - Sean

Production:
Dante Tomaselli - Director
Dante Tomaselli Milka Stanisic Anthony J. Voorhies - Producer
Dante Tomaselli Kenneth Lampl - Composer
Egon Kirincic Marcus Bonilla - Editor
Dante Tomaselli - Screen Writer
Peter Zumba - Art Director
Tim Naylor - Cinematographer
Erika Gonzueta - Costume Designer
Christa Avery - Executive Producer
Millie Stanisic - Executive Producer
Jared Trimble - First Assistant Director
J.T. Camp - Production Designer
Chen Harpaz - Sound/Sound Designer
Scott Sliger - Makeup Special Effects

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