David Roggenkamp What starts out as simple exploration of underwater ruins quickly turns into the release of an evil once thought sealed nearly forty years before. One woman is haunted by visions of being the daughter of a child molester, in addition to her mother that is always away on location for work. Not much is given to the opening introduction of two boys playing knights, until much later in the film. All havoc breaks loose once the evil comes back to haunt everyone. The movie is unusually hard to follow and it feels fragmented between scenes; if there is a lot going on here, there seems to be more emphasis placed on action than actual plot – the plot is just that, a plot device and nothing more. I do not recommend this movie.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=4977).

super marauder I bought this blindly at the video store. What the heck? It is about a town celebrating it's anniversary but it has a of course it has a secret. A dam was built and the town became prosperous. But what was under the water is the old town and come to find out a secret was buried under the water and was coming back for revenge.This film violated many rules like violence toward children. But for me it was creepy and interesting. I liked Michael McKell, Charlotte Salt and the rest of characters in this movie because the looked and acted real, with the exception of the blonde girl who I thought that she really over acted when she was crying over her late boyfriend. However Patrick Gordon really creeps me out.I can see how and why this movie doesn't suit everybody. It is graphic, and there some scenes that may offend people, but for me this is a good, but not great horror movie. I'll let people make up their own mind on this and wouldn't blindly recommend to everybody. It's a matter of taste.

MrGKB ...why, it's almost criminal, I think! Brian "Bride of Re-Animator" Yuzna is at least a genre demi-god, far as I'm concerned, but if so, his powers have seemingly all but evaporated. "BSW" (and I like the acronym because it emphasizes the nature of this mess of a film) has none of the vigor or playfulness of his earlier films. Methinks he is suffering from encroaching ennui. The leads are mostly European teevee actors, no doubt appealing in that medium, with varying and mostly limited intensities of screen presence. It doesn't help that a good number of them were speaking a second language, and at that knowing they're going to be overdubbed anyway. It shows in the performances, which are often stilted, almost unnatural. Worse, of course, is the script, about which the less said the better; Sturgeon was right, as always. Things start off fairly well for a low-budget adaptation of some pulp-horror bus ride throwaway, and then the whole affair sinks beneath the weight of a tired plot, at times horrendous dialogue, problematic acting, disappointing production values at key junctures, seemingly indifferent direction--even the obligatory bare boobies and revolting gore couldn't save this turkey. Strictly desperation viewing only, sorry to say. Mr. Yuzna should stick to producing.

Scarecrow-88 A warlock, Mordecai Salas(Patrick Gordon)buried, with his chained flock inside a chamber within a devil-worshiping church, under water thanks to a mayor who was able to sink the village of Marienbad with developing deals promising a brighter future for the landscape. 40 years later, after the mayor's death, Mordecai threatens a grand return. The mayor's granddaughter, Clara(Charlotte Salt)is the one Mordecai has his eyes on, while also infecting the townspeople nearby with a type of mental sickness, and others with a black sludge-like substance derived from the muddy soil of the water covering Marienbad. Mordecai needs Clara's submission while also awaiting the collapse of the poorly structured dam, built hastily 40 years prior, giving way to a massive crack running down it.Standing in Mordecai's way are Clara's mother, Teresa(Raquel Meroño), a would-be reporter returning home after a stint in London, and a recently arrived photo-journalist, Dan Quarry(Michael McKell) who is haunted by the death of his son. Dan is on assignment covering a story on Marienbad's history and Teresa is looking for a hot story. Both will find much more than they bargained for.Well, I explained the synopsis to the best of my ability, but director Brian Yuzna often abandons story logic in favor of bizarre gore and supernatural violence. Unrestrained, Yuzna doesn't seem obligated to tell a cohesive narrative instead taking Mordecai and allowing him to use his dark powers to torment and destroy through mind control while we see the black sludge turning citizens into creepy blob monsters. There's a jam-packed climax which includes the bridge showing signs of crumbling, the earth trembling, a festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the dam's building which turns into a crazed orgy of sexual deviancy and Dan, quite a skilled scuba-diver, who finds the chamber where Mordecai and his followers' monstrous remains are awakened(..while also holding a book of black magic spells Mordecai used to summon his dark powers)under the sea. I think a history lesson told to Teresa and Dan by a survivor from the past, Luis(Manuel Manquiña)who saw his childhood pal Teo murdered after releasing Mordecai from his roped hands, helps the viewer out somewhat, but Yuzna's been around long enough that he ought to be able to use such an interesting premise(..an underwater village housing an evil presence which rises to terrorize)and make a better film than what we wind up getting on screen. And, I can not understand why Yuzna just won't make a Spanish horror film using the language of the cast. Why try to make a foreign cast, in a foreign setting, speak a language they are not accustomed to? There's enough gory insanity to perhaps please some horror fans(an infected policemen chops off his limbs, one poor soul is "sludged", one victim gets his face ripped apart from the mouth), but the film could've been a sleeper and instead comes away a sad disappointment.