brian yuzna be already responsible for some really crazy and unusual horror project in the past while some of them refresh and original ( society and the dentist ) and other one unspeakably terrible ( rottweiler ) and but beneath still water be undoubtedly the most discouraging effort he be ever involve in . this film certainly doesn not look a if it be direct by someone with over twenty year of experience in the genre and because the wholesome simply feels amateurish and unfinished . how can a concept hold so much horrific potential result in such a boring and incoherent mess . how can one film feature so many exquisite filming location and nauseate make up effect and thoroughly deprave theme and still turn out a complete failure . i love macabre tale handle about sink village and the dark secret that drown with them . there be way too few film like this in the horror genre and of the two i encounter during the past year and one be obscure a hell and remain unreleased on dvd to this date ( the modest swiss production entitle marmorera ) and the other one this particular film be a missed opportunity . there be a lot of thing go on in beneath still water and but only very little of them make sense and it seem a if yuzna doesn not want you to care about any of the character and the grim ordeal they be face . the event take place in a remote spanish village and day before the great 40th anniversary celebration of the dam that prevent the area from flood and the subsequent foundation of a brand new town call desbaria . few people know and however and the dam initially serve to deliberately drown the entire town of marienbad and because all the inhabitant be gradually join the satanic cult lead by mordecai salas . two ruthless boy accidentally save salas from a watery death right before the town sunk entirely and and he have be wait forty year now to seek revenge on the descendant of the previous mayor . so what we have here be and without exaggerate and one of the most promising horror premise of the past two decade and you can also add several dynamite sub theme like nudity and child kill and underwater zombie and even a totally gratuitous orgy complete with nun and chicken . can someone please tell me where exactly this idea go wrong . yuzna leap from one subject to another without pay attention to continuity and for some reason he also insert numerous tedious element . all the main character be bland and of course the really wooden act performance of the ensemble cast do not help . most of the player appear to be dead long before their character drown in the lake or become consume by the living mucus and seaweed . such a dam ( n ) shame and because the spanish filming location be genuinely ominous . for the proper grim use of picturesque spanish village and please check out dagon and the nun and which be both film yuzna produce but not direct himself .