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2005 Certificate 15
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Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki and a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror. Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia, a troubled woman who is battling her husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), for custody of their young daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade). Low on cash, Dahlia .. Read more

Starring Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Tim Roth
Director Walter Salles
Genres Horror

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Dark Water

Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki and a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror. Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia, a troubled woman who is battling her husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), for custody of their young daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade). Low on cash, Dahlia moves with Ceci into a creepy apartment building on Roosevelt Island in New York City and soon discovers that something very wrong is going on one floor above them. As black water drips down ominously from the ceiling in her bedroom, Dahlia is unable to get help from the real estate agent in charge (the appropriately mysterious John C. Reilly) or his very strange employee (a grizzled Pete Postlethwaite). Around the time Ceci starts going to her new school, she also seems to have developed a very dangerous invisible friend with eerie ties to the apartment above. Believing that Kyle might be gaslighting her, Dahlia turns to a rather curious lawyer (Tim Roth) who appears to work out of his car. All the while, memories of her strained relationship with her mother begin flooding her mind and giving her debilitating migraines. Brazilian director Walter Salles's (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, CENTRAL STATION) first Hollywood film, DARK WATER cleverly paces itself before unleashing a terrifying conclusion.

Starring Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Ariel Gade
Director Walter Salles
Studio WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections 100 Horror Films
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Released DVD: 28 Nov 2005
Blu-ray: 18 Feb 2008
Production year: 2005
Format DVD
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  • 30 out of 42 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    not the best of asian horror

    I am a big fan of asian horror, that being said this is just and average scare or two after watching and hour or ten minutes of build up. Nice ending to the film though. If you want asain horror choose the eye, the ring or the grudge.

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Shallow and overcast.

    How disappointing that such a fine cast and crew should make such a pigs ear of this remake of Hideo Nakata’s excellent 2002 thriller. Clearly attempting to capture the mood of the likes of Rosemary’s Baby and Don’t Look Now, Walter Salles’ handsomely shot film trudges along aimlessly and then just stops. Where Nakata’s film ends with a genuinely shattering climax (which was both chilling and heartbreaking), this new version just falls flat – finally acknowledging head-on the supernatural aspect which it had been avoiding since the start, but not quite knowing what to do with it.

    Everything else is spelled out with thumping obviousness: the characters of the husband, the real estate agent and the building supervisor are turned into cartoon villains which make the heroine’s predicament almost completely unambiguous. Whereas the original film transpired to be – essentially – a story about a woman coming to terms with the fact that she might not be the best person to raise her daughter, this version hammers home instead the point that the heroine’s childhood paralleled that of the ghostly kid. It doesn’t add any further depth to the proceedings, but – if you’ll forgive the pun – just muddies the water further.

    On the plus side, the cast are as fine as you would expect, and the film-makers deserve kudos for not resorting to the usual current Hollywood techniques for portraying ghosts (grey/green make-up, flickery stop-motion style effects) and instead just using a young girl who is creepy because she simply shouldn’t be there.

    Well made then, but the original film is more subtle and scarier.

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