Dante Tomaselli

Dante Tomaselli (born October 29, 1969) is an Italian-American film director, screenwriter, and score composer. Known for his "unique and eccentric" work in the horror genre,

Biography Tomaselli was born on October 29, 1969, in Paterson, New Jersey. He expressed interest in becoming a horror filmmaker while he was still a child, due to his enjoyment of films such as The Exorcist and Don't Look Now, which he watched with his mother at local theaters.

Tomaselli studied filmmaking at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and later transferred to the New York School of Visual Arts, where he achieved a BFA in Advertising. His debut feature, Desecration, which he based on a previous 23-minute short, was released in 1999.

He is openly gay.

Themes and influences Tomaselli often utilizes themes of Catholicism and Christianity in his work, partly inspired by his Catholic upbringing as a child; while other critics have praised them for this feature.

Discography Scream in the Dark (2014) The Doll (2014) Nightmare (2015) Witches (2017) Out-Of-Body Experience (2019) Holy Terror (2025)

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