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'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] In 1994, Baino made his feature film debut with Dark Waters, an atmospheric horror movie inspired by the short stories of H. P.
He wrote the surreal drama Flower of Shame for German producer Vesna Jovanoska who also hired him to adapt Chris Niles' urban thriller Hell's Kitchen for the screen.
In 2008, he was commissioned to write the screenplay for Thy Kingdom Come, a Re-Dark production shot in Argentina with an American cast and directed by Estonian born auteur Ilmar Taska.
Baino was hired to rewrite The Curse of The Vij, based on Nikolai Gogol's legendary short story, for production company Film-maker srl and director Robert Englund.