A few years ago, the sibling filmmaking duo of Luciano and Nicolás Onetti brought us the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-esque horror film What the Waters Left Behind, which was set and filmed in the devastated city of Epecuén in Argentina. That movie landed a successful distribution deal with the Netflix streaming service. Now Nicolás Onetti has returned to Epecuén on his own to film the sequel, What the Waters Left Behind: Scars. A trailer for What the Waters Left Behind: Scars will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20th, but a week ahead of that date a poster has been released online. You can check that out at the bottom of this article, along with a batch of stills from the film and a behind-the-scenes image.
As the synopsis for What the Waters Left Behind explained, “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 first movie showed the horrors that befell a group of young people who ventured into Epecuén to film a documentary. What the Waters Left Behind: Scars follows
an Anglo-American indie rock band that winds up stranded in Epecuén, where their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly lose importance before the hell that awaits them.
The film stars Agustín Olcese, Clara Kovacic, Magui Bravi, María Eugenia Rigón, Juan Pablo Bishel, Matías Desiderio, Germán Baudino, Chucho Fernández, and Paula Brasca, with Mario Alarcón and David Michigan.
What the Waters Left Behind: Scars is coming to us from Minerva Pictures and Black Mandala Films. Nicolás Onetti produced the film with Monica Ciarli, Michael Kraetzer, and Carlos Goitia. Eduardo Camauer serves as executive producer. Martín Gerding and Luciano Onetti are associate producers, and Luciano Onetti also composed the score.
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