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Dark Waters (Baino)

Dark Waters. Mariano Baino, 1993.

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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.


Summary: A mutilated animal and distasteful encounters with dead fish.


Details:

1) A deranged man picks up dead fish from the floor of a small boat, tears at them and eats the raw flesh, 22:23-22:45.

2) A rocky beach covered in stranded dead fish, 59:36-1:00:31.

3) At 1:20:05, a one-second shot of a mutilated small animal (cat?) on a table with 6-year-old Elizabeth standing by, all guilty smiles. We saw Elizabeth in her bloody nightgown holding - this - earlier but it looked like a stuffed animal. 

4) Another shot of the of the mutilated animal on the table, 1:26:37-1:26:39.

5) Elizabeth walks down the rocky beach again. This time it is littered with both dead fish and dead nuns, 1:27:42-1:28:24.



The Dark Waters BD in the Severin box set also includes Il demonio (1963 Brunello Rondi).