We haven’t written anything about Dante Tomaselli’s TORTURE CHAMBER in over a year. However, after that long span, we finally have some new info on the horror flick. First off, the poster up top, which is brand new. I find it pretty damn fascinating. How f*cking freaky is that image? And the tagline above it is just par for the course.
Second, Mr. Tomaselli gave a very interesting and in-depth interview regarding CHAMBER as well as the rest of his work over at The Cathode Ray Mission. You can click on that link for the full session. For now, I’ll just give you a quick snippet of Tomaselli (below) discussing the basic premise of TORTURE CHAMBER:
“Torture Chamber is about a 13-year-old boy possessed by unspeakable evil. It’s probably the first serious independent horror film in a long time that’s in the vein of The Exorcist. The demon is called Baalberith, which, if you believe in demonology, tempts its host to blasphemy and murder. Jimmy Morgan is a pyromaniac, horribly disfigured from experimentation with drugs. This Catholic boy’s family is crawling with religious fanatics. His mother believes he was sent from the Devil to set the world on fire. His older brother is a priest who tries to exorcise him. When Jimmy murders his own father, he burns him to death. Because of this, the troubled boy is sent to an Institution for disturbed youths. While there, Jimmy has a Charles Manson-like hold on the other kids from the burn unit. Together, they escape and Jimmy finds an old abandoned castle for shelter. That’s where the burned kids find a secret passage way that leads to a medieval, cobwebbed torture chamber.”
Now, that right there should have you at least slightly interested in checking this flick out. I wish I had some release news to give you, but sadly, it ain’t currently in the cards. Hopefully that’ll change soon.
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