Dark Waters

Director: Mariano Baino, Mariano Baino Carancula Mariano Baino

Overview

The debut feature from Italian filmmaker Mariano Baino, Dark Waters is a gruesome horror flick about a young woman named Elizabeth with a terrifying secret. In search of answers about her mysterious childhood experiences, Elizabeth falls in with a creepy group of nuns who seem to know everything about her and take her captive. Winner of the Vincent Price Award at the Rome Fantafestival, the film has also been released as Dead Waters.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2017
UPC:	0663390001745
Original Release:	1994
Source:	Severin
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	56,515

Special Features

Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Mariano Baino; Lovecraft Made Me Do It - Featurette; Let There Be Water - Featurette; Controlling The Uncontrollable - Featurette; Director's Intro; Deleted Scenes; Silent Blooper Reel with Audio Commentary by Director Mariano Baino; Short Films of Mariano Baino: Dream Car, Caruncula, Face and Body, Never Ever After, Making of Never Ever After

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Louise Salter	Elizabeth
Venera Simmons	Sarah
Mariya Kapnist	Mother Superior,Actor
Albina Skarga	Old Blind Woman
Valeri Bassel	Fisherman
Pavel Sokolov	Boat Owner
Anna Rose Phipps	Theresa
Tanya Dobrovolskaya	Elizabeth as a Child
Lubov Snegur	Actor
Igor Clark	Composer

Technical Credits

Mariano Baino

Andy Bark

Mariano Baino	Director,Screenwriter
Victor Zuev	Producer
Andy Bark	Screenwriter
Mariano Baino Carancula	Director

Editorial Reviews

Perhaps the most exciting genre debut of the decade, Dark Waters is a stylish, frightening occult film with the Lovecraftian overtones of Lucio Fulci and the visual flair of Dario Argento, pointing to its creator, Mariano Baino, as perhaps the next great Italian horror director. Louise Salter (Interview With the Vampire) stars as Elizabeth, who travels to a dark, gloomy island in search of her friend. What she finds instead is a frightening convent run by a hideous, blind nun (Mariya Kapnist) and her homicidal followers. Befriended by young-nun Sarah (Venera Simmons), Elizabeth seeks to discover the identity of her own mother, why her father was secretly funding the convent, and she wants to know what happened to her friend. Hallucinations of twin girls with blood-smeared mouths, beaches littered with thousands of dead fish, and gory murders haunt Elizabeth before she reaches her final confrontation with a horrible Lovecraftian demon. Richly textured and gorgeously photographed by Alex Howe, Dark Waters stands out visually for Baino's use of flame. The director paints the coastal landscape with fire, torches, and candlelight the way Argento paints with color, to striking and memorable effect. Salter and Simmons are quite good in the leads, and the film generates more than its share of goosebumps despite a weak score by Igor Clark. This atmospheric Italian-Russian co-production fulfills the promise shown by Baino in his previous cult short Caruncula, and is a rare treat for horror fans.