In Darkness It Dwells » (REV)

Joseph Laudati is a sculptor, works as a prototype artist, and has created the master patterns for many action figures, toys, and collectible model kits. His animation work has been seen in film and television, and his writing published in Amazing Figure Modeler, Modeler's Resource, and Cinemagic magazines. He currently lives in New York City.

Through his hobby of stop-motion photography, young filmmaker Tom DeFrank builds and animates a demon puppet, creating a subliminal bond with an ancient entity. As each frame of film is exposed, the boy unwittingly summons "a sinister force that gives vent to his inner demons. Like a fury, it escapes into the world to wreak the terrible vengeance of the boy's repressed rage. But fate intercedes. Tom befriends Julie, a girl whose father is the infamous Stephen Parrish, reclusive psychic and town enigma. Parrish perceives the strange presence within Tom, and sets out to solve the mystery of the demon and the evil warlock who once summoned it. In the small town of Chipinaw, strange events unfold. With each flare of Tom's passion, a strange creature is witnessed in the countryside. The public grows fearful, and all eyes turn to Parrish as the source of the evil. As he labors to expel the rampaging demon, bitter rivalries come to the fore . . . and people start dying. For only through the will of its master can the demon be banished: a boy little conscious of his powers to create . . . or destroy.