Synopsis

Drawing on the classic horror film styles of the 1970s and 1980s, Satan’s Playground is a visually dazzling, supernatural shocker chronicling an average family’s spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey’s legendary Pine Barrens. When their car breaks down en route to a wilderness camping retreat, the unsuspecting travelers find themselves terrorized by a mysterious supernatural presence. Seeking help and safety in this desolate wooded region, they’re forced to confront a very real horror when the bizarre Mrs. Leeds and her equally unhinged children offer shelter from the unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Trapped in a surreal nightmare, they must choose between the known and the unknown as they try to survive in Satan’s Playground…

Official Review

Dreams and nightmares. Reality or fairytales. Loss and lost. Welcome to Dante Tomaselli’s “playground” and abandon hope all ye who enter there. In Tomaselli’s current film, “Satan’s Playground”, a horrifically frightening film with strong echoes of “Evil Dead”, “The Hills Have Eyes”, “Mother’s Day”, “The Shining”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and many of our scarier fairytales and which was recently picked up by Anchor Bay for distribution, the viewer is treated to all of these genres, themes and more. …Read More