Mariano Baino

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Mariano Baino (born March 17, 1967) is a visual artist, film director, screenwriter, and editor, mainly working in the horror genre. Mariano Baino has been honoured with a rare “Extraordinary Ability Green Card” by the US Government for his talent as a film director and currently resides in New York.

He has been hailed as “one of the great torch-bearers for expressionistic genre cinema” by Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival.^{[citation needed][citation needed]} where his film Dark Waters received the Prix Du Public. He's also the recipient of the Vincent Price Award for Outstanding Contribution to Fantastic Cinema. He's been called "someone with a vivid and savage imagination that Bram Stoker would envy" by British newspaper The Daily Star,^{[citation needed]} and "an unholy hybrid of Bergman and Argento" by Film Review.^{[citation needed]} His work has been compared to Bergman's for its somber atmosphere and depth of religious meditation.^{[citation needed]}