It has been compared to the works of Bergman, Bava and Argento—and it remains one of the most spectacular and original horror films of the fin-de-millénaire. Mariano Baino’s groundbreaking debut feature stars Louise Salter (Interview with the Vampire) as a young Englishwoman drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remote convent—a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors. There, she will unlock dark family secrets and uncover remnants of a suppressed pagan past that is quite literally leaking into the present, threatening to burst through with apocalyptic force at any moment.

In attendance of Mariano Baino