World Famous Comics: Santiago Pasaglia Beneath Still Waters (Widescreen)
Santiago Pasaglia Beneath Still Waters (Widescreen)
Starring: Omar Muñoz, Santiago Pasaglia, Eva Pont, Norberto Morán, Patrick Gordon Directed By: Brian Yuzna Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 10, 2007 Running Time: 100 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Product Description: A supernatural force is devouring the village of Marinbad and its inhabitants and is threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. A group of men from the village manage to convince the authorities to build a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water. But something remained down in the depths when the waters covered Marinbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the village built next to the reservoir that now covers Marinbad.System Requirements:Runtime: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398211679 Manufacturer No: 21167
Wierd The story is simple. Evil worshiper supposed to be drowned with his town is freed and lives until he can get revenge on the people that tried to kill him. He and his followers invade a small town near the location of his old town and possess the towns people except for two young teenmagers bent on saving thier town. What i dont get is in one second the town is perfectly sane and in the next they are eating each other and having sex in the streets. How this change occured is never really explained. Just Sane one minutes, totaly under satans control the next. Somehow the cult leader is able to possess people. Its a film that had potential but its many many flaws make it a failure. You are left with to many unexplained questions after the credits.
PS> Its a complete Rip-off of the cthulhu universe created by HP Lovecraft
i don't remember anything about this movie so, i watch this movie and i really don't remember about it, that is how forgetible this movie really is. but it had a nice twist at the end... sorta.
Brian Yuzna's answer to Dagon Beneath Still Waters (Brian Yuzna, 2005)
I'd probably have passed the one up altogether were it not based on a Matthew Costello novel. I had no idea when I sat down to watch it that it was directed by Stuart Gordon protege Brian Yuzna, who's done some very interesting stuff over the years (though, to be fair, some not-so-interesting stuff as well). Yuzna, as Gordon before him (with Dagon), heads over to Spain, presumably to make a cheaper movie, casts a few minor personages on their way up and some established Spanish stars, and injects as much Lovecraftian silliness into this manuscript as he possibly can. But for the production values and Yuzna's slightly less-steady hand, this might as well be a Gordon flick, and I mean that as praise.
In 1965, the small Spanish town of Marienbad is to be flooded when a dam is built to supply power to the new neighboring town, Desbaria. Two children are investigating the town before it gets flooded, and they discover something horrific-- four people chained in the basement of one of the houses. One of them sets the leader free and is killed for his troubles; the other flees, retreating into insanity for the rest of his days. Fast-forward to the fortieth anniversary of the dam, and Desbaria is putting on a celebration. It's drawn Dan Quarry, a journalist (Michael McKell, of the long-running daytime soap Doctors) who's doing a story on the sunken town, and Teresa Borgia (Raquel Merono, who showed up-- surprise!-- in Dagon), daughter of the last mayor of Marienbad and the first mayor of Desbaria, a plucky news reporter. (For there must always be a plucky news reporter.) Teresa's daughter, Clara (Charlotte Salt, of the upcoming Beowulf), London born and bred, is desperately bored with the small town. Until all hell breaks loose, that is. Clara's grandfather appears to her in dreams, warning her that the leader of the local coven of Satan-worshippers is going to return. You guessed it, it's the guy the kid set free in the opening sequence. And so Clara, with indirect help from her mother and Quarry, have to find a way to put an end to said cultist's evil machinations.
First off: if you're familiar with the Gordon/Yuzna axis, especially in the last decade or so, you should be well aware that what you're getting is going to be a low-budget cheesy movie. No nine-figure budgets to be found in Yuzna movies. So you can't go in expecting a glossy Hollywood production; a good part of movie appreciation is being able to look at things through the right frame. You have to expect barely credible acting (at most), a completely off-the-wall script, inconsistent direction, etc. In other words, this ain't Spielberg, and you should have lower standards when viewing it. Once you're on that level, Beneath Still Waters delivers pretty well. McKell gives the kind of performance you used to get from action-movie heroes, back in the day-- gritty, somewhat understated, resigned to the fact that if he has to save the world and die in the process, well, that's his job. The rest of the performances aren't all that great, but Yuzna takes the time-honored cheesy low-budget movie tactic of simply having everyone overact to the point of parody, and it's all okay. The effects are surprisingly decent (in spots, just as in Dagon) for a production of this level, and the script, while not exactly watertight, certainly isn't bad. The movie woke a desire in me to read the book, at least, and see what they changed to put all this into movie form, besides the names of the towns. ** ½
Learn from my mistake I picked up this CD while I was at Hollywood Video last night. It was in the bargain bin where you buy 2 CDs and get 2 for free. Sometimes I get lucky and find a real gem of a horror movie while searching the bargain bin. Not this time folks. This movie sucks. Its got demons, religious cults, zombies and a bunch of other distractions but the story is convoluted, the acting blows and the whole CD isn't worth my time, your time or anyone else's time. It shouldn't even be in the bargain bin waiting to snare unsuspecting horror fans like myself. It should be burned and then buried deep beneath still waters.
Not all that bad I saw this on the Sci-Fi Channel, it was actually one of their better movies. Forty years ago, some cannibalistic Satan worshippers were chained up in a house and the waters behind a newly built dam were allowed to rise until they were drowned beneath it. Unfortunately, minutes before the water rose, a kid was exploring the town and let the head bad guy go.
Flash forward 40 years. Some evil force has awakened and people are starting to turn up dead. The main characters are a TV reporter (hot babe!) who's quite likable and her daughter (hot babe #2!) who has lost her friend to the mysterious force. There's also another reporter, this one a guy, who shows up to be the hero. I didn't much care for him, he's basically a jerk. This is one of those movies where every secondary character has a lot of personality, and that makes the whole thing quite a bit more fun. They also throw in one of those scenarios where the big 40th anniversary of the dam is soon to be celebrated, biggest event in the town's history, yadda yadda yadda. As if we needed to see that played out for the 1,000th time.
Overall, if you like low budget horror movies, with a couple of hot babes (who actually look like mother and daughter), well, this one isn't too bad. The plot moves along at a fair pace and although this certainly isn't any sort of masterpiece, it succeeds in keeping the B-movie lover entertained for 90 minutes.
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