Mariano Baino

Mariano Baino (born March 17, 1967) is a film director, screenwriter and editor mainly working in the horror genre.

He has been hailed as “one of the great torch-bearers for expressionistic genre cinema” by Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival. He's also the recipient of the Vincent Price Award for Outstanding Contribution to Fantastic Cinema and other awards. He's been called "someone with a vivid and savage imagination that Bram Stoker would envy" by British newspaper The Daily Star, and "an unholy hybrid of Bergman and Argento" by Film Review. His work has often been compared to Bergman's for its somber atmosphere and depth of religious meditation. Stereoscopic movie HIDDEN 3D is based on an original story Baino and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni co-wrote.

Born in Naples, Italy, he started shooting short films at an early age and started working as a production assistant in shows for Italian television. Later he moved to London, England, where in 1990 he wrote and directed the short film Caruncula, that firstly fully showed his moviemaking skills. Novelist Ramsey Campbell called CARUNCULA "Not only a fine tribute to the Italian horror masters, but a small masterpiece of sustained perversity in its own right."

In 1994 he made his feature debut with Dark Waters, an atmospheric horror movie inspired by the short stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Despite a troubled production in the Ukraine, the movie achieved critical acclaim and is experiencing a still growing attention from horror fans. The film was released in a special edition double disc box-set in the USA in 2007 and, in July 2014, The Ecstasy of Film re-released Dark Waters in France in a new collectors' edition. The same company also released, always for the French market, Baino's The Trinity of Darkness.

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