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Tomaselli has been a lifelong supernatural/horror aficionado and is also the cousin of film director [[Alfred Sole]], whose ''[[Communion (film)|Communion]]'' ([[1976]]), made its own mark in the world of Catholic-themed [[horror films]] twenty-eight years prior.
Tomaselli has been a lifelong supernatural/horror aficionado and is also the cousin of film director [[Alfred Sole]], whose ''[[Communion (film)|Communion]]'' ([[1976]]), made its own mark in the world of Catholic-themed [[horror films]] twenty-eight years prior.


His second feature film, ''[[Horror (2002 film)|Horror]]''(2002), began principle photography [[January 15]], [[2001]], in Warwick, upstate [[New York]].
His second feature film, ''[[Horror (2002 film)|Horror]]'' (2002), began principle photography [[January 15]], [[2001]], in Warwick, upstate [[New York]].


Tomaselli just completed his third feature, Satan's Playground (2005). It stars 70's and early-80's cult-horror icons [[Felissa Rose]] (''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''), Ellen Sandweiss (''[[The Evil Dead]]''), and Edwin Neal (''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]''), as well as [[Raine Brown]] and [[Danny Lopes]], both of whom starred in ''[[Horror (2002 film)|Horror]]''.
Tomaselli just completed his third feature, Satan's Playground (2005). It stars 70's and early-80's cult-horror icons [[Felissa Rose]] (''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''), Ellen Sandweiss (''[[The Evil Dead]]''), and Edwin Neal (''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]''), as well as [[Raine Brown]] and [[Danny Lopes]], both of whom starred in ''[[Horror (2002 film)|Horror]]''.

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Dante Tomaselli (born October 29, 1969, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an Italian-American horror screenwriter,director, and score composer from New Jersey.

Dante studied filmmaking at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, then transferred to the New York School of Visual Arts, receiving a B.F.A. degree there. His first film was a 23-minute shortcalled, Desecration, which was screened at a variety of horror and mainstream film festivals and venues. Tomaselli later expanded Desecration, which he also wrote, to feature-length. In 1999, the film received its world premiere to a standing-room-only audience at the prestigious Fantafestival in Rome, Italy.

Tomaselli has been a lifelong supernatural/horror aficionado and is also the cousin of film director Alfred Sole, whose Communion (1976), made its own mark in the world of Catholic-themed horror films twenty-eight years prior.

His second feature film, Horror (2002), began principle photography January 15, 2001, in Warwick, upstate New York.

Tomaselli just completed his third feature, Satan's Playground (2005). It stars 70's and early-80's cult-horror icons Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Ellen Sandweiss (The Evil Dead), and Edwin Neal (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), as well as Raine Brown and Danny Lopes, both of whom starred in Horror.

Dante is now looking ahead towards the creation of a fourth feature, The Ocean (2007), an occult shocker about mysterious and deadly riptides.