Thursday, September 13, 2007
GENRE-XPLOSION: CREEPY NUNS AND WATER DEMONS
Genre-xplosion is a short, spoiler free introduction to some of the strange and obscure movies and comics that I enjoy. Some of them are brilliant masterpieces... some of them aren't. All of them are entertaining.
DEAD WATERS (1994)
Creepy Nuns and Water Demons
Directed- Mariano Baino
Written- Mariano Baino, Andy Bark
STYLE: ****
SUBSTANCE: ****
BLOOD/GORE: ****
NUDITY: ****
Scale built on quantity, not quality.
SET-UP:
While on his deathbed, Elizabeth's (Louise Salter) father informs her that she was born in a convent on a small, secluded Ukrainian island that he's been making secret payments to for the last 20 years. He makes her promise never to visit the island and to keep the payments up after his death. She agrees, but somehow talks her friend Teresa (Anna Rose Phipps) into investigating the island for her instead. Frustrated with her lack of updates, Elizabeth decides to join Teresa on the island to finally figure out where she came from and why she can't remember the first seven years of her life.
SEX AND VIOLENCE:
There's a good amount of blood and guts here for fans of that and one short topless scene, but it is all story driven. This movie is about the heebie jeebies and not something you should watch drunk with your buddies. In fact make sure you are well rested when you pop this one in, because the constant rain, dreamy score and lack of dialogue will make you sleepy for sure.
THOUGHTS:
I watched this movie as a U.S. released DVD titled "Dead Waters" it has since been re-released in the States as "Dark Waters". I don't know how different these two DVD's are, but I just wanted everyone to know they are the same movie.... not to be confused with "Dark Water" starring Jennifer Connelly. That's something completely different.
Dead Waters is a very dark and creepy movie... this one is all about the atmosphere. Most of the flick either takes place on the rocky, barren beaches of the island which are strangely littered with dead fish or inside the candle-lit, musty catacombs of the old church. The whole thing has a dirty, grimy feel to it that will take you a long while to shake off. Upon a first viewing, you'd never know you were watching a movie made in the mid-nineties. It feels much more like a 70 style Italian horror flick, complete with overdubbed sound effects, neat lighting and a haunting organ score. That being said, Dark Waters is a hard movie to figure out. There's very little dialogue, (besides two voice overs and some grunts and groans, there is absolutely no talking in the first 18 minutes.) and much of the dialog that is present is garbled or has such an accent to it, it is hard to make out. Hopefully this is fixed in the Dark Water DVD as I had to watch Dead Water three times to figure out exactly what was going on. Thankfully, with every viewing, I grew to like the movie more and more. Dead Waters is filled to the brim with scary old ladies, creepy postmen/morticians, insane fisherman, old blind nuns that mutter to interpreters and horribly, horribly creepy dream sequences making this movie one to remember. If this sounds like your type of movie, I suggest you check it out.
DEAD WATERS (1994)
Creepy Nuns and Water Demons
Directed- Mariano Baino
Written- Mariano Baino, Andy Bark
STYLE: ****
SUBSTANCE: ****
BLOOD/GORE: ****
NUDITY: ****
Scale built on quantity, not quality.
SET-UP:
While on his deathbed, Elizabeth's (Louise Salter) father informs her that she was born in a convent on a small, secluded Ukrainian island that he's been making secret payments to for the last 20 years. He makes her promise never to visit the island and to keep the payments up after his death. She agrees, but somehow talks her friend Teresa (Anna Rose Phipps) into investigating the island for her instead. Frustrated with her lack of updates, Elizabeth decides to join Teresa on the island to finally figure out where she came from and why she can't remember the first seven years of her life.
SEX AND VIOLENCE:
There's a good amount of blood and guts here for fans of that and one short topless scene, but it is all story driven. This movie is about the heebie jeebies and not something you should watch drunk with your buddies. In fact make sure you are well rested when you pop this one in, because the constant rain, dreamy score and lack of dialogue will make you sleepy for sure.
THOUGHTS:
I watched this movie as a U.S. released DVD titled "Dead Waters" it has since been re-released in the States as "Dark Waters". I don't know how different these two DVD's are, but I just wanted everyone to know they are the same movie.... not to be confused with "Dark Water" starring Jennifer Connelly. That's something completely different.
Dead Waters is a very dark and creepy movie... this one is all about the atmosphere. Most of the flick either takes place on the rocky, barren beaches of the island which are strangely littered with dead fish or inside the candle-lit, musty catacombs of the old church. The whole thing has a dirty, grimy feel to it that will take you a long while to shake off. Upon a first viewing, you'd never know you were watching a movie made in the mid-nineties. It feels much more like a 70 style Italian horror flick, complete with overdubbed sound effects, neat lighting and a haunting organ score. That being said, Dark Waters is a hard movie to figure out. There's very little dialogue, (besides two voice overs and some grunts and groans, there is absolutely no talking in the first 18 minutes.) and much of the dialog that is present is garbled or has such an accent to it, it is hard to make out. Hopefully this is fixed in the Dark Water DVD as I had to watch Dead Water three times to figure out exactly what was going on. Thankfully, with every viewing, I grew to like the movie more and more. Dead Waters is filled to the brim with scary old ladies, creepy postmen/morticians, insane fisherman, old blind nuns that mutter to interpreters and horribly, horribly creepy dream sequences making this movie one to remember. If this sounds like your type of movie, I suggest you check it out.
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This was that uncomfortable movie we watched while working on Filthy Habit, yes? The one where I kept hoping for some hot nun-on-nun action and instead people walked around on the beach and bled for no reason? Creepy.
I'm just rubbing my hands together in anticipation of the day you review They Call Her One-Eye. Good times. Good, good times.
I'm just rubbing my hands together in anticipation of the day you review They Call Her One-Eye. Good times. Good, good times.
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: Friday, September 14, 2007
: Friday, September 14, 2007
This is that same flick you are thinking of, It's a weird one...
I'll do it next then, just for you buddy. :)
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I'll do it next then, just for you buddy. :)
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