Dark Water review

Rated - 5.0 stars

By Patrick#83 from SALFORD Avatar image

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Dark Water

Director Hideo Nakata
Run time 98 mins Certificate 15

8th August 2004

Wow, what an atmospheric and genuinely creepy film. A mother in the middle of a custody battle moves into a run down apartment block with her 6 years old daughter. She starts seeing things like a little girl who apparently lives in the flooded apartment upstairs but who disappears whenever she gets hear. The scares come from everyday things like a purse that keeps turning up even though it has been thrown away several times and a leak in the ceiling that gets worse as the film goes along. The tension builds as the mother is convinced forces are working against her to show her up as a bad mother to the shocking conclusion. I wonder if the American remake, currently being filmed with Jennifer Connelly in the lead, will be half as good.