in 1965 and in northern spain and a dam will be build to bring progress to the location of desbaria and the town of marienbad be near to be completely flood . two boy and teo and luis and cross the security boundary to play in the evacuated town and teo listen to voice in the abandon church . they find a group of strange people chain in the watered basement and teo release their leader mordecai salas ( patrick gordon ) and be kill by him . forty year later and in the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of debaria dam and the teenager antonio ( damià plensa ) vanishes in the lake while swim with his girlfriend susana ( pilar soto ) and their friend clara borgia ( charlotte salt ) . the police diver and with the support of the outsider photo journalist dan quarry ( michael mckell ) that be film the submerged marienbad to write a matter about the town and try unsuccessfully to find the body . when eerie thing happen in the spot and dan and the local journalist and daughter of the builder of the dam teresa borgia ( raquel meroño ) disclose dark secret about marienbad and salas and his evil cult of the power of the flame . i be a big fan of brian yuzna and but beneath still water be a huge deception . the screenplay be a complete and flawed mess and with terrible development of character and situation and many shameful line . the acting in general be not good and and the lead pair show no chemistry . the special effect be very reasonable and and i believe many actor and actress have be dub in english . the sequence of the bacchanal recall the disturb cult society in the debut of this great director . unfortunately his two last work ( rottweiler and beneath still water ) be very disappointing . my vote be four . title ( brazil ) represent mistério no lago ( mystery in the lake ) .