Dark Waters

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Debi T @Zombiette 1d I thought it was a good movie. I saw the date of release had two different years I'll go with 2006, but it reminded me of the 70s horror movies, music, mood, creepy nuns. All in all I liked it. See more simon a @Cheffyboy Jan 27 Some interesting imagary, but slow, nonsensical and poorly acted See more Bigbossbalrog @Jigokju Jan 20 Great folkhorror piece! Really liked this! Came with the severin box set! See more Joy B. @9mr_0 Dec 21 فيلم جيد و قصة جيده رغم انها محدوده اخراج وتصوير جيد See more Peter P 06/18/2023 Atmosphere is everything here. Beautiful in the tradition of Italian Horror Cinema, but the setting on the Crimea gives it a unique look of a lost time. A decaying monastery on a remote island, candlelit cave passages, paintings by a blind, visionsplagued artist. And the overall feel of something truly old. The pace is slow, sometimes with no dialog for long sequences. But for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Gothic or Occult Horror this is highly recommended. See more CKB 10/28/2022 This intriguing low-budget production has a lot of rough edges which the 2006 documentary of its making, Deep Into Dark Waters, helps explain. It was filmed in 1994 in Ukraine, at that point a newly liberated former Soviet satellite still heavily tainted by Soviet-era disarray, corruption and weirdness, so that director Mariano Baino and his small band of British crew and actors found themselves up against serious daily challenges. No one knew where their camera was at first and it took days to 'find' it. Somebody had sold their film stock on the black market and they had to resort to the same black market to buy more. The Ukrainian crew members would take 3-4 hour 'lunch breaks'. The Brit who was going to animate their monster was a liar and ran out, leaving them with only a rigid monster statue. And so on. Considering these challenges, the resulting film is far better than it had any right to be. Baino and his co-writer had to come up with instant rewrites to major parts of their script, and their solutions seem better than their original ideas. Their goal had been to make a 'real' horror film in response to the silly slasher junk typical of those times. Having their plans for big spectacle scenes dashed forced them to create something much more suggestive and ambiguous -- exactly what makes the best horror films work so well. See more Read all reviews

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