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Beneath Still Waters (2005)

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In 1965, in Northern Spain, a dam will be built to bring progress to the location of Desbaria and the town of Marienbad is near to be completely flooded. Two boys, Teo and Luis, cross the ... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael McKell ...
Dan Quarry
Raquel Meroño ...
Teresa Borgia
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Clara Borgia
Patrick Gordon ...
Mordecai Salas
Manuel Manquiña ...
Luis
Pilar Soto ...
Susana
Diana Peñalver ...
Mrs. Martín
Ricard Borràs ...
Mayor Luca
Damià Plensa ...
Antonio
David Meca ...
Diver Sargent Eduardo
Carlos Castañón ...
Police Captain Keller
Josep Maria Pou ...
Julio Gambine
Omar Muñoz ...
Luis - 10 Years Old
Santiago Pasaglia ...
Teo (as Santiago Passaglia)
Eva Pont ...
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In 1965, in Northern Spain, a dam will be built to bring progress to the location of Desbaria and the town of Marienbad is near to be completely flooded. Two boys, Teo and Luis, cross the security boundary to play in the evacuated town and Teo listen to voices in the abandoned church. They find a group of strange people chained in the watered basement, Teo releases their leader Mordecai Salas and is killed by him. Forty years later, in the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Debaria Dam, the teenager Antonio vanishes in the lake while swimming with his girlfriend Susana and their friend Clara Borgia. The police divers, with the support of the outsider cameraman journalist Dan Quarry that is filming the submerged Marienbad to write a matter about the town, try unsuccessfully to find the body. When eerie things happen in the spot, Dan and the local journalist and daughter of the builder of the dam Teresa Borgia disclose dark secrets about Marienbad, Salas and his evil cult of the... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Fear is rising.


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Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, sexual content, nudity and some language | See all certifications »
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Bajo aguas tranquilas  »

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In the city of Marienbad before it floods, the boys throw rocks at a poster for "El Rostro de la Bestia," which has credits for Paul Naschy and Brian Yuzna. There is no such movie, but Yuzna did direct Naschy in 'Rottweiler (2004)'. See more »

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One of the creatures trapped in the sunken city has its hand melted onto its face. In some shots it's the right hand, in others it's the left. See more »

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[last lines]
David: I hate them!
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References Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) See more »

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"El Payaso"
Written by Alfonso García, Valerio Beneras and Daniel Pelayo
Performed by El Retrato and Dirty Princess
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Waste of time
26 August 2006 | by (Singapore) – See all my reviews

This movie is terrible. I don't know what the director was doing and I'm sure he felt the same way. The acting was terrible. There were characters with American, Spanish, British and what sounded like dutch, accents. I guess realism wasn't the number 1 priority. The acting was terrible, at best. That is more than I can say for the 'special effects' which comprised mainly of slow-motion(how 80s) and painfully clumsy green screen work. The monsters were about as scary as something out of an Ed Wood movie. I've seen toddlers make scarier monsters from play-dough. The plot was neither going here nor there. It was clichéd and methodical, yet still managed to be quite unfathomnnable. It seems the director was writing the script spontaneously and whatever popped into his head was hastily squeezed in. This movie is an insult to anyone who may have the misfortune to endure 92 minutes of unprofessional directing, poor special effects, poorer acting and an altogether mediocre performance and story line. I am still very surprised that this even made it to a theater and even more surprised I didn't walk out of it halfway. I guess it's like a gruesome car-crash where you cannot divert your eyes away even though you should. But in this case I'd rather be in the car crash and be spared the movie.


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