Dante Tomaselli’s Nightmares
Interview with writer-director-composer Dante Tomaselli covering the release of his three concept albums and nightmarish films, including Torture Chamber (2013).
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Dante Tomaselli’s Nightmares
Between 2014 and 2015, MVD Audio / Elite released a trio of concept albums by writer-director-composer Dante Tomaselli, atmospheric works of sounds and fragmented music & voices that immerse listeners into a nightmarish yet eerily calming underworld. Scream in the Dark was followed by The Doll (an album which also conceptualizes some of the sonic elements Tomaselli was […]
CD: Nightmare (2015)
For his third audio horror album (after Scream in the Dark and The Doll), filmmaker Dante Tomaselli switches to a decidedly early eighties mode, at least with the fragments of recurring music and bass drones that evoke both slasher and thriller films with mechanical, man-slicing monsters…
CD: Doll, The (2014)
Whereas most writer-directors may obsess over script details prior to filming a nightmarish shocker, Dante Tomaselli’s attention is on assembling a carnival of sounds that may inspire a film’s images…
Woody Does Expressionism: Shadows and Fog (1991)
Review of Twilight Time’s new Blu of Woody Allen’s homage to German Expressionism, Shadows and Fog (1991), plus some personalized editorial blather.
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