Feature Films & Upcoming Film Project

Danny will join Tomaselli to shoot The Ocean this upcoming spring in Puerto Rico. More information soon.

Films & Appearances

All of Danny's films are available on DVD...

HORROR

Plot Outline This visually arresting chiller concerns a group of runaway teens that escape from a drug rehab and encounter demonic forces in a rural farmhouse.

Plot Synopsis Writer/Director Dante Tomaselli merges two disturbing storylines into this visually arresting chiller. The first involves a band of five teens that escape from a drug rehabilitation center to cash in on a questionable promise of salvation from the psychopathic Reverend Salo Jr. (Vincent Lamberti). Leader of the pack Luck (Danny Lopes), fueled on major hallucinogens, transports the gang to the reverend's isolated house where the basis of the second plot has been set simultaneously. Here lives Grace (Lizzy Mahon), Salo Jr.'s daughter, whom he and his equally bizarre wife (Christie Sanford) have enslaved through enforced drug addiction and psychic brainwashing. Grace's only salvation appears to be by the guidance of her paternal grandfather Reverend Salo Sr. (The Amazing Kreskin). But this hope is quickly jeopardized when it becomes revealed that his comforting visitations may be being made from beyond the grave. Regardless, it is through Grace's visions involving him that she learns of her parent's demonic pastimes, which include abduction, murder, and possibly worse. Shortly after the arrival of the rehab escapees, Luck shoots and kills Salo Jr. and his wife. This eruption of bloody violence becomes the catalyst for the unleashing of dark forces with terrifying results.

Einsiders.com reviews HORROR
"Dante Tomaselli's second film, "Horror" is destined to be a classic of the genre... After watching this eerie assault on my most primal fears, I thought that if someone put Dario Argento and David Lynch into Jeff Goldblum's transporter pod from "The Fly," Dante Tomaselli would pop out the other side. In the film "Horror," Dante Tomaselli invites you to enter a disturbing and surreal world of hopelessness and fear."
-- Einsiders.com

"Writer/director Dante Tomaselli follows up DESECRATION with the story of a group of teens who break out of a drug rehab center and tangle with a psychopathic reverend, demonic entities and zombies. Danny Lopes (from DESECRATION) and The Amazing Kreskin (!) star, with a cameo appearance by SLEEPAWAY CAMP's Felissa Rose."
-- Michael Gingold, Fangoria

DESECRATION

Plot Outline Sixteen year-old Bobby (Danny Lopes) is emotionally damaged by his mother's early death. He accidentally causes a nun's death, unleashing a chain of supernatural events that lead him into the pits of Hell.

Plot Synopsis "Desecration" is a psychological chiller about a beyond-the-grave relationship between a teenage boy and his long-dead mother. Bobby a 16-year-old loner, has been emotionally damaged by his mother's early death and a repressive Catholic upbringing. The boy accidentally causes a nun's death, triggering a chain of supernatural events and violent mayhem that leads Bobby into Hell to confront his mother. Powerful childhood demons are exorcised and unleashed as the gates of Hell open in this gripping, hallucinatory film.

TV Guide Online reviews "Desecration" (from TVGUIDE.COM)
Desecration (from DVDAUTHORITY.COM)
Desecration (from FLIPSIDEMOVIES.COM)

THE OCEAN

Plot Outline "The Ocean" is about mysterious and deadly riptides terrorizing a small coastal community.

SATAN'S PLAYGROUND

Plot Outline Satan's Playground is a chiller with a vacationing family lost in the woods and the Jersey Devil lurking in the Pine Barrens.

Plot Synopsis SATAN'S PLAYGROUND is a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, panic sets in. Then the marooned family stumbles upon an ancient and seemingly abandoned house. And it is here that they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds who lives there with her equally unhinged children. Offering no assistance, she warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves. SATAN'S PLAYGROUND...a place where deadly myth becomes gruesome reality.


Horror	Desecration	The Ocean	Satan's Playground

"Richly atmospheric exercise in surreal horror...like a Grimm Bros. fairy tale filtered through the dreaming subconscious...This fatal family outing in the New Jersey Pine Barrens forest suggests familiar "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"-type terrain...Tomaselli creates a hyper-real atmosphere of striking primal-fear images, cackling lunacy, impending doom and grotesque humor...Belying very modest means, Tomaselli has delivered a design and tech package that's first-rate. Complex music/ambient audio design he composed with Kenneth Lampl is a worthy match to Tim Naylor's beautifully menacing photography..."

-Variety Magazine -- a review of Satan's Playground