Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

You've all managed to convince yourself that this is some deep work of genius, but the creator himself has admitted that he was forced to reshoot half of it by his producers and that is what resulted in this boring, incoherent mess that wasn't what he had in mind for this movie at all. Even the director of this movie has gone on record saying that the second half of this movie is crap! Stop deluding yourselves. You're all stroking yourselves over how deep and avant garde this is, yet it was forced on a director by corporate producers looking to make this more mainstream. It's ridiculous. Maybe it could have lived up to its potential without the interference, but that didn't happen. The reality is that this is a broken mess and a failed experiment in film-making.

It is not a bad movie. I just wasn't as interested as I thought I would be. The movie moves very slowly in the first half and I was actually losing interest in the proceedings. I was not able to understand the English accent and I was having some difficulty with the plot. The dialogue was often muted. Maybe they should have just hired some American guys to dub for these guys and make it clearer. I am not such a fan of the visual style. Honestly I am never a fan of this grainy dark style anyway. The old Argento/Fulci/Bava movies were always bright and beautiful to look at. The visual style was a major reason for my lack of interest at the start.The second half really gets going and we get a sequence of weird scenes. It didn't make sense at first but I just read a blog which details the story and the intricate plot points. The ideas are very intelligent and many scenes towards the end are quite creepy. The dream sequence is also quite creepy and the ending is done very stylishly. This is one of the few movies where the idea of the evil child actually creeped me out. The concepts involved are actually disturbing (cannibalism??). The child actors have done very well. Louise salter is good in her role as well.Considering the budget and all, I thought they did well with the ending and it doesn't give the impression of a low budget movie.I liked it but there are many elements that could be improved.6/10

This is a strange and creepy movie. It is shot in the Ukraine, and in a place with no electricity and only candlelight. It has a creepy sound throughout, and very little dialog.There are nuns that live in this harsh place and they spend a lot of time in flagellation. They also spend a lot of time doing things that make no sense whatsoever. I am sure it does to them, but we are left in the dark.Elizabeth (Louise Salter) visits this strange place. She is there to find out why dear old dad had been making regular payments to these nuns.Mother Superior (Mariya Kapnist), an old crone that must be a couple of hundred years old, assigns Sarah (Venera Simmons) to assist Elizabeth.Her friend Theresa (Anna Rose Phipps) is gone before she gets there, and I am not sure I would trust Sarah.The bottom line is that Elizabeth should have listened to her father.Bloody, gory, creepy, suspenseful, in the tradition of Argento and Bava; a must see.

What I truly love about this film is that it suspends all disbelief. It features locations which are simply breathtaking, acting which is solid and believable, and overall execution (of a film) that is foreign film quality - and let's face it, even some of the lower budget foreign film beats the crap out of a good percentage of American blockbusters.I had the great pleasure of seeing this film on 3rd gen VHS back in 1996 and to see this absolutely gorgeous re-mastered edition was heavenly. It's refreshing to watch a film that you can get completely taken away by and have to experience the film in its entirety to learn the story of it. You know, rather than having the actors spell it out for the audience in the first act leaving only predictability to follow. Such instances disappoint me but NOT in the case of Dark Waters.This film, aside from maybe John Carpenter's The Thing, is the closest on screen adaptation, in theme, to the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The darkness and uncertainty of it mixed with such ambiguity as to literally let your mind take over and almost customize the film to your liking. The whole story centers around a clandestine order of nuns on a remote island someplace that time had forgotten about. At first glance these nuns seem pretty nasty and even evil... but with further inspection, they are simply protecting the world from an ancient aquatic demon escaping and bringing all the world to utter ruin and sorrow.The film is masterfully crafted and you can tell the filmmakers truly loved making this film, the caring and attention to detail in this film is a welcome addition to an ever declining art form. If film-making is indeed a language than Mariano Baino speaks that language fluently! I cannot wait for his next feature film.Excellent!!