Biography
Mariano Baino is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, hailed by Montreal's FantAsia Film Festival (where his film “DARK WATERS” received the coveted Prix Du Public) as “one of the great torchbearers for expressionistic genre cinema”. He won the “Vincent Price Award for outstanding contribution to fantastic cinema” and the "Silver Bat Career Achievement Award" at Rome’s FantaFestival. His feature film DARK WATERS, “a veritable object of veneration among horror fans” in the words of Itali...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Opera Runs in the Blood
2024
Director, Writer, Editor
Documentary about the life and career of actress Carolina Cataldi-Tassoni with special focus on her work in Dario Argento's "Opera".
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
as Self
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British te...
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
FANTASMAGORIA - STAGIONE UNO
2020
as The host
A Moving Read
2019
Director of Photography, Director
In a dystopic future where all books have been eliminated and tablets are compulsory, the last human on earth must battle relentless drones designed t...
The Trinity of Darkness
2014
Director, Writer
Three dark and bizarre shorts from Mr. Baino's feverish imagination, praised by The Daily Star as "a man with an overflowing and wild imagination that...
Hidden 3D
2011
Writer
Following the death of celebrated scientist Susan Carter, her son Brian is surprised to inherit her controversial experimental addiction treatment cen...
Never Ever After
2006
Director, Writer
A woman's dissatisfaction with her body leads her to agree to a strange operation.
Dark Waters
1993
Director, Editor, Writer
A young Englishwoman is drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remove convent--a crumbling edifi...
Caruncula
1991
Writer, Director
A short horror film by director Mariano Baino about a female vampire.
Dream Car
1989
Director
A man became obssessed with a dream car, soon his dream become a claustrophobic nightmare.
Astrid's Saints
N/A
Writer, Director, Producer
A grieving mother forced to unravel the mysteries that bind her to other grieving mothers, their children and the Saints to whom all of them are devot...