Backwater
A bayou sheriff finds himself on the wrong side of his own search.
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A bayou sheriff finds himself on the wrong side of his own search. The editors’ note placed it here on the basis of three criteria: durability across re-reads (or re-watches, or re-plays), influence on the entries that came after it, and the degree to which it could only have been made by the person — or team — who made it.
In the comparative table maintained by the Film desk, Backwater sits within a band of 17 – 23 that contains some of the most contested swaps of the year. Editors vote with arguments; a swap requires three editors and one written defense.
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Black Water is a 2007 Australian-British horror film written and directed by Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich. The film, an international co-production of Australia and the United Kingdom, is set in the mangrove swamps of northern Australia, and stars Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody and Andy Rodoreda. Inspired by the true story of a crocodile attack in Australia's Northern Territory in December 2003, a pregnant woman, along with her boyfriend and her sister, takes a boat tour of a mangrove swamp, where they are terrorized by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.


