FilmSupernatural Witchcraft & Occult Gothic

Beneath Still Waters2005

Name: Beneath Still Waters
Genre: Supernatural, Witchcraft & Occult, Gothic
Released: 2005-11-02
Rating: 4.3

“Fear is rising.”

Directed by Brian Yuzna

4.3

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Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.8TMDB 4.0

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Year

2005

Runtime

92 min

The premise

Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

Horror Vault's take

Forty years ago, a flooded valley was meant to bury an unspeakable evil forever — but some things refuse to stay submerged. When a rash of mysterious disappearances and deaths begins plaguing the town beside the reservoir, the dark history of the drowned village of Marienbad claws its way back to the surface. Rooted in Aleister Crowley-inspired occultism, this Spanish-shot supernatural horror conjures a waterlogged dread that builds from the depths. The past is never truly sealed away, and whatever was locked beneath those still waters may not be finished with the living.

Content: Supernatural Violence, Deaths Depicted On Screen, Occult Imagery