Sequel to 2017’s WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND Is Now in the Works
Josh Millican
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Rome-based Minerva Pictures and New Zealander/Argentinian Black Mandala Films will co-produce the horror slasher movie What the Waters Left Behind: Scars.
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Synopsis
In the last concert of an unfortunate tour of an Anglo-American indie rock band, one of its members loses his mind when is seduced by a local girl and this situation unleashes conflicts among the members of the band. Unexpectedly they end up stranded in Epecuén, a ghost town, where the internal conflicts and the bad luck of the tour, will quickly lose importance before the hell that awaits them.
The film will be directed by Nicolás Onetti (The 100 Candles Game, A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio, Abrakadabra, What the Waters Left Behind) and Matías Salinas (Presagio, aka Omen), and shooting will start in September 2021. The co-production was negotiated by Monica Ciarli, Head of International Office, for Minerva Pictures International and Michael Kraetzer, CEO, for Black Mandala Films.
This sequel of What the Waters Left Behind (2017), will also be shot in Epecuén, Argentina. 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 saltwater. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned.
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If you’ve yet to experience 2017’s What the Waters Left Behind, check out the trailer and synopsis below.
Synopsis:
A group of young people takes a trip to the ruins in order to film a documentary about Epecuén, a place that 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 saltwater. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. Ignoring the warnings, and after a brief tour, the documentarians get stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary to what they thought, they begin to realize that they are really not alone…
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