Thirty-two years after intense flooding obliterated the Argentinian village of Epecuen, all that is left is a skeletal remnant. Epecuen had the making of an intriguing story, but it was never utilized. What the Waters Left Behind premiered in 2017 where it was directed by the Onetti Brothers Luciano and Nicolas Onetti. The film was a mess and heavily packed with gore. The story is focused on a group of overly glamorous documentarians capturing a film featuring the once vibrant Nature and Epecuen. The documenters get captured by a family who tortures them one by one, and their grand scheme to create a film completely fails. Sound familiar? Rather than being inspired by The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, it does not hide from stealing the entire plot. Then, after one of the brothers, Nicholas returned to document the story where Camilo Zaffora was able to make use of an increased budget for production. Much like his brother, put him in the same sludge but a WC advertising sign and called the movie WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND SCARS. Lo and behold, the movie was yet another pathetic unnamed sequel. the cluttered, unbalanced, and dry mess of a film awaited.
The film’s setting, a dystopian graveyard of disintegrated, water-ravaged neighborhoods, would normally serve as the centerpiece of a compelling story. What’s delivered, however, is the lethargic, torn-off pitch from a cheap Texas Chainsaw Massacre off from Argentina. What falls short of adequate potential in torture-porn, instead focuses on games of senseless rape to sensationalize the piece. What is paradoxically energizing about this narrative is that nothing is tactfully crafted as a delight for any average viewer.
The story follows a group of sexy rockers who pick up, then anger, an equally attractive sailor. Viewers are teased with the hope of capturing French exploitation cinema, aptly titled a fantasy that if there’s going to be horror do it exceptionally. My hopes came crashing down when I discovered one of the most engrossing characters is disposed of in one of the best kills in the film. For a moment, I thought they might spare me a large dollop of regret served upon accepting a torturous interpretation of wry writing. Spoiler the children of the eye-gouged mother do not. Not to mention the utter banter with a crazed family who squeals about how they killed the most fun one too early.
Like the first movie, all the action happens at a rundown slaughterhouse that does nothing to utilize the genuinely impressive and horrifying setting of the abandoned villa. The movie would have made sense if it actually did something with this remarkable location instead of trying to tie its kills to a setting we have all seen a hundred times.
The turn of events is quite interesting as the killer family members actually begin to kill each other. Victims are put aside and now, as an audience, we are supposed to sympathize with these diabolically dreadful but. While the main characters are being raped, tortured, mocked, burned, and flayed, the focus is on these sadistic wretches. With absolutely no one supporting you, all anyone can do is put their heads down and brace themselves as they trail through it.
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