Dark Waters (1994 film)
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| Directed by | Mariano Baino |
| Produced by | Victor Zuev |
| Written by | Andy Bark |
| Music by | Igor Clark |
| Cinematography | Alex Howe |
| Edited by | Mariano Baino |
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87 minutes |
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Russia Italy United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Dark Waters (1994), also known as Dead Waters in the American home-video edition, is a horror film directed by Mariano Baino, who co-wrote it with Andy Bark and also served as the editor.
The plot involves a young English woman named Elizabeth, who, after the death of her father, travels to a convent on a remote island where her mother died after giving birth to her. The convent is populated only by nuns, who practise strange rituals in the catacombs under the building and who seem to hold something at bay down there.
The film was originally planned to take place in England with an American female lead. The setting was changed when producer Victor Zuev, who had seen Baino's short film Caruncula in a film festival in Russia, stepped in and proposed him to shoot it in Ukraine instead. Bark had hoped the film would feature Hugh Cornwell from the English rock group The Stranglers as the brother.
The script originally concerned the magical search for control of the sea and power over the earth. The original plot was much more similar to some short stories from H. P. Lovecraft such as The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with an entire town filled with mutants, but it was later changed for practical reasons.
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