Dark Waters (1993)

Dark Waters: Directed by Mariano Baino. With Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Lubov Snegur. A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.

“I stumbled upon this film completely by accident. I had ordered the Japanese film Dark Water and was sent this instead. The retailer told me to keep the film in order to make up for their error. It was a weird thing to have happen, and I figured it must be some cosmic sign, so I sat down to watch it having zero idea what it was about.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot of this film has a young woman going to a desolate monastery/nunnery in order to find out why her recently deceased father had been supporting it for years. Once there things are far from u0026quot;normalu0026quot; and there are many hidden dark secrets, not all of them are particularly healthy for our heroine.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film really knocked my socks off. This is a movie that reminded me of many of the Euro-horrors of the 1970u0026#39;s and early 1980u0026#39;s. You have weird cults, young women, murder, mayhem and monsters. There is a weird tension that comes from everything being ever so slightly off center. You canu0026#39;t help but feel uneasy since you donu0026#39;t know how weird things are going to get nor do you know who is going to end up dead.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e(SPOILER AHEAD) The only real problem is that even though the movie creates a very real claustrophobic world of religious oppression, with real characters, the film completely falls down in the last minutes when we see the u0026quot;demonu0026quot; that has been lurking around, at that point things go right into the toilet. How do I say this? Its worse than a man in a suit. it simply a rubber nightmare that almost completely ruins everything that has gone before. Simply put its on the list of really bad monster costumes. (Think about what happened at the end of the Conan the Destroyer)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you can get past the bad monster and just take the movie for what its trying to do, then youu0026#39;ll enjoy the movie, if you need a perfection youu0026#39;ll love it up to a point and hate the ending.”