What the Waters Left Behind2017

Name: What the Waters Left Behind
Genre: Slasher, Found Footage, Survival
Released: 2017-10-28
Rating: 4.5

Directed by Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti

4.5

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IMDb 4.0TMDB 4.7

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Year

2017

Runtime

98 min

Box Office

🏆 2 wins & 1 nomination total

The premise

Epecuén was one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Thousands of people concurred, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the village was submerged under ten meters of salt water. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. The plot revolves around a group of young people that take a trip to the ruins in order to film a documentary about Epecuén. Ignoring the warnings, and after a brief tour, they get stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary to what they thought, they begin to realize that they are really not alone…

Horror Vault's take

Decades after a catastrophic flood buried the Argentine village of Epecuén under meters of saltwater, a crew of young filmmakers ventures into its skeletal ruins to document the eerie, long-abandoned landscape. What begins as a straightforward documentary shoot quickly unravels when the group finds themselves stranded — and disturbingly not alone among the crumbling remains. Drawing on the haunting reality of a real ghost town, this Argentine horror film weaponizes desolation itself as a backdrop for mounting terror. The vast, bleached ruins offer nowhere to hide and no one to hear you scream.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore