Dark Waters
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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.
Plot
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 costruction and seem to hold something at bay down there.
Details
The movie was originally planned to take place in England with an American female character as the lead. The setting was changed when producer Victor Zuev, who had seen Baino's short film Caruncula in a filmfestival in Russia, stepped in and proposed him to shoot it in Ukraine instead.
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 due to practical reason.
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The film was originally based on a short story by Andy Bark, inspired by a childhood visit to Staithes in North Yorkshire. Many years later, having worked as editor on Mariano's film Caruncula, he mentioned that he was working on a script called Dark Waters, and he and Mariano began to work on it together. Andrew 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. When Andrew went to visit a penfriend in Siberia he took with him a copy of Caruncula and it was there that the future producer saw it and was impressed by Mariano's work. The film, perhaps the first Western film to be shot in the Ukraine following the collapse of the USSR, was difficult and troubled one, the system there creating many problems, but providing cheap yet spectacular sets and locations that would have been impossible to get in the UK. The political situation tried its best to halt the production. In the early days, when finance was being sought by Andy and Mariano, a coup attempt that saw tanks on the streets of Moscow could not have helped matters! There was even another one right at the end when Mariano, in moscow for the dubbing, was awoken by gun fire!
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