Hidden 3D’s mysterious changes explained by original director Mariano Baino!

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

I didn’t think news on this would hit us this fast but I guess this is a good thing…right? So it was just yesterday when I dug up a little story surrounding HIDDEN 3D, the latest and first Italian horror movie to be filmed in well…3D. Complications arose however. There were directors bailing out in the middle of post production and a very (I mean very) talented actress heading for the door. What gives right?

It seems that wasn’t the case. Ex-director Mariano Baino gave us a little insight into the matter as he explains what really went down and why. I will tell you this: it wasn’t because of the 3D so don’t expect to use this on your anti-3D movements. Check out what he says below and I guess we’ll have to see what happens from here on out. 

“Both Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni and I would like to clarify a couple of things regarding our involvement with HIDDEN 3D,” says Baino. “I co-wrote the original screenplay with the amazingly talented Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. Most people know her as a wonderfully gifted actress and painter but she is also a very talented writer. We came up with a truly unique concept and wanted to make a genuinely disturbing, multi-layered movie. Unfortunately, the producers decided to go in a completely different direction and we decided to leave the project. No hard feelings. Stuff happens. Lesson learned. It was a labor of love for us, a project we spent years writing and developing. As artists, both of us care deeply about everything we get involved with and we couldn’t bear the thought of making the movie the producers wanted to make. We have kept our “story by” credit on HIDDEN 3D, because the movie is still based on our original story but signed the screenplay with a couple of very obvious pseudonyms, because very little, if any, of our screenplay or our original intention and vision was left in the movie they are making, but that’s the extent of our association with the movie now. Anyway, the whole Hidden 3D experience is behind us, and Coralina and I are already on to our next, bigger and better project.”

So the mysterious changes are not so mysterious now. It’s a shame that Cataldi-Tassoni will not be credited in the movie for anything because let me tell you, from what I’ve seen in Argento’s films, she’s a fine performer in the land of horror. HIDDEN 3D is about  an abandoned experimental medical center that harbors a deadly secret that only becomes known when a restoration project begins.

Some Italian beauty right at your fingertips gentlemen, Monica Bellucci.