First Stills – Dante Tomaselli’s Torture Chamber

Steve Barton |

Jul 15, 2010

We’ve gotten our claws into the first stills from Dante Tomaselli’s latest film Torture Chamber, and a couple of them are bound to make you more than a little uncomfortable!

Torture Chamber is about a boy possessed by an evil so powerful no priest can exorcise it. The boy comes back to his hometown after a failed attempt at it with an army of burned children at his command, whom he uses to abduct both innocent and guilty, dragging them to a nearby castle and subjecting them to all sorts of punishment. Bring it on!

The film is rockin’ quite the cast, too, including Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Ed Neal (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), and Christie Sanford (Desecration).

“In terms of outright fear, I want to push the envelope right off the table. Religious fanaticism … eternal damnation.” said Tomaselli. “This is a film about peeling back layers of pain and guilt buried in the unconscious mind. At the core there’s a family in deep psychic pain. It’s the first serious independent horror film in a long time that’s in the vein of The Exorcist. Torture Chamber aims to be one of the scariest horror movies of recent years.”

The film is now in post-production. Dig on the stills below. Click them to see them larger!